This weeks topic from Choclate on my Cranium is My Worst Fear.I am actually afraid of a lot of things. But the thing that definitely tops them all is water. Water is all fine and dandy for drinking, bathing, cleaning, etc. But if I have to put my face in it? No way! Water suddenly becomes my mortal enemy. I feel like air is non-existent and I will never be able to take another breath and I panic! Even if my face just gets close to water, my breathing gets labored. This could probably improve with a little practice. But so far I have not been willing to practice. I think I would have a heart attack!
I do not live near water and hardly ever visit, so really this fear of mine shouldn't be a problem, right? Wrong. I am married to someone who LOVES the water. He was on the swim team in high school. He absolutely loves the ocean and can't wait to visit again. His dream vacation would be a week of pure snorkeling. The next problem? Our 5 children. How do I teach them that water is OK? This is very difficult. Every summer my children take swimming lessons. It is good for them, I know. And it is very good for me because I see that after two weeks of bobbing and floating and blowing bubbles and jumping off the diving board, my children are all alive! They are learning to enjoy the water and logically I am very happy about that. Still I can't help but completely tense up every time I see one of them go under the water. So far so good, I guess. My next concern, though, is what do I do when I don't have a little baby or toddler as an excuse to stay out of the deep end? Or out of the water all together? Yikes!!
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I guess that means you have to just keep having babies until you are to old to swimming!! Your so cute Aimee! We all will always love you, even if you don't ever go swimming in the deep end with us.
I too try not to pass my fears on to my children. I hate swimming in water at night--who knows what is swimming under their with you--yikes!!
My mom was like this too and she made us all take swimming lessons and told us what great swimmers we were, etc. etc. So now we all love the water and she still is scared to death of it. Great post. thanks.
I use to be afraid to get my hair wet because I thought it would damage my hair and turn it green. But then I noticed my kids were having way more fun in the water than me. So now I just go under and pretend I'm a kid and have a great time in the pool
I guess you will just have to be the one who takes pictures of everyone else swimming!
I'm afraid of the water too and now my worst fear about that is that my kinds will find out!
If it helps any, I was on the swim team etc. but I am petrified of open water. Pools are just fine with me, but lakes and oceans are out of the question.
My kids LOVE water (Samuel's not thrilled with rivers), and Stuart of course thinks swimming is great.
I don't even like floating the canal. Not only is it dirty, but you never know what is in there!
Haha! I'm laughing at Hannah's comment. I think it's great that your kids are taking swimming lessons. At least you're not trying to purposefully pass on your fear right?
You just need to live somewhere so hot that the water will feel good to you.
I can do water, but not the kind with fish swimming in it.
You bring up such a good point! (About not passing on our fears to our children)
My daughter was not afraid of spiders until the day I found a HUGE one in the laundry basket and screamed.
Good luck with the swimming lessons and the deep end. :)
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