Inner Angst...

Our little Jack talks all the live long day- and I am not exaggerating in the slightest!! He seems to be having quite a bit of inner turmoil lately. It all started with swim lessons- you see he has a favorite teacher- Sam- she was actually on Ryker's swim team and has grown up to be a very impressive young lady from what I can tell. Anyhoo- she was not teaching Jack's last swim session and he was not happy at all! Our conversation went something like this:

Me: Are you going to swim with your new teacher-
Jack: I want to swim but I don't want to swim-
I want to use the kickboard but I don't want to use the kickboard-
I want to use the noodle but I don't want to use the noodle-
Me: It sounds like you have some decisions to make-
Jack: I want to make a decision but I don't want to make a decision-

As he was telling me all of this his eyes were getting teary and I could see his inner struggle written all over his face. Now, in my earlier mothering years I would have put my foot down and said something along the lines of- I'm paying for these lessons and you're going to swim, or something else equally as ridiculous. However, I have learned a few things over the years- sorry children numbers one and two for my experimental or shall I say sometimes mental parenting skills- please forgive me-

I decided to just let the little guy work it out and give him all the support I could. Well, he missed the first two lessons but on lesson number three he made the decision to swim!! After we talked about it later and why he didn't want to swim in the first place he just looked at me and said:

Well, I didn't know how her skin would feel!!