Weekly Blessing - Week 17

Ms. Danielle.  Ms. Danielle is Morgan's swimming teacher. Ms. Danielle is an extremely patient teacher who really cares if Morgan does well and is comfortable. Ms. Danielle has had to employ many of her tricks and tools to help Morgan through a rough patch lately. Ms. Danielle definitely deserves a Christmas Gift (still trying to ponder what is ideal for a college-age person). 


Morgan as of a few weeks ago decided that she no longer enjoyed swimming lessons. The main reason being that they moved on to breathing. She has to put her head under, come up for a breath, and then re-submerge. This did not thrill her, in fact this made her extremely uncomfortable and turned on her stubborn switch - of, yeah thanks but no thanks people - this ain't happenin' anytime soon. It also turned on her sobbing switch. 


Over the last few weeks Ms. Danielle has gone back to the start with her. Helping her get comfortable again and to trust her as her teacher. It is working, Morgan no longer cries and she is starting to smile again and re-do everything she was doing before. 


The most amazingly wonderful part is this - after this week's lesson I talked to Ms. Danielle (they always have parents come out so the kids can show something they did that day).  I noticed Morgan was alone for class, but thought maybe the other little girl did not show up this week. Ms. Danielle told me that she had spoken with the deck manager and the owners and was given permission to do private lessons with Morgan for a few weeks. She noticed that when Morgan had to wait for her turn while she was working with other kids her anxiety built and then she had issues with returning to the water, however when they are one on one and can just go through class she does great. 


She also asked for any tips or tricks to help her ease her hesitation when it comes. She is trying SO hard, and I can not say how appreciative I am to her and the school for doing all of this to help one little girl.