Turnabout is unfair play

The boy is learning to swim. When I first informed him of my plans to send him to the local YMCA's lessons, the first words out of his mouth were resolute: "I'm not going." To which I replied, "Yes you are; I'm paying for it, and I'm dropping you off there." To which he replied, "You're wasting your money."

He's got a lip, that one.

Despite his protestations, he's attending, and has proceeded through several levels of Swim America's program to learn to swim. I can definitely recommend the program: even though the head coach chewed out his entire group for wimpy bobbing on the first day, he kept at it. For all I know, maybe he kept at it just to prove the head coach wrong, but I'll take that, too.

Talk about a complete turnaround: he's now so excited about swimming that last weekend he spent a half hour telling his Russian grandparents everything he's learned. So much for wasting my money!

He also wants to go swimming more frequently at a pool. This isn't what I signed up for. I signed up for saving him from drowning, not from teaching him a new way to drain my bank account!!!