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In Your FACE, mom!
June 24, 2005
Thanks to a smidge of peer pressure and some feigned ambivalence on my part, my kids are FINALLY learning to swim. Coley is suddenly fearless in the water. Before yesterday, every time his face would go under water, he would breathe IN, which is totally counter-intuitive, not to mention damn scary! Yesterday, it clicked for him, and he kept letting go of me so he could sink under the water and attempt to bob back up.
Monk, too, was spontaneously water-adventurous. First, putting his entire face in the water and then attempting to do the front crawl over and over again, squealing "Look mom! Look at me!"
All of this was most likely due to the presence of our friend Lu, who is one of Monk's dearest friends and Coley's personal hero. Lu was gently trying to convince Monk that swimming is cool, and took turns with me guiding coley out to the deep end. At one point, Lu yelled out to me "He kept himself afloat for a full second!" and Coley turned to me and said "In your FACE, mom!" and then turned back to Lu and said "Now, Let. Me. Go!"
It was adorable and sweet and empowered and wonderful to see my boys suddenly take to the water. We've just had the best week ever here. We had some difficulties last week with anger. This week, we performed a solstice ritual. I had all of the kids draw pictures of scary monsters as symbols of their bad (or unproductive or negative) feelings and (after explaining that feelings aren't bad, but they can cause us to feel bad and sometimes we do bad things because of our feelings) we said goodbye to our monsters and I burned them in our sink as an act of letting go. The kids loved it, and I think we will continue to perform this ritual every year on the summer solstice.
It's been a productive week, emotionwise. Coley called yesterday a "learning day." For me, it's been a learning week. I'm growing as a parent; finding new ways to approach issues and problems. It's difficult, but not impossible. I'm so thankful for the little guys who share my dna, and for the other little people who are part of my life, as well.
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