{"id":956,"date":"2014-02-25T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=956"},"modified":"2014-02-25T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T04:00:12","slug":"finding-the-swimming-sweet-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/family-man\/2014\/02\/25\/finding-the-swimming-sweet-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the swimming sweet spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just got back from swimming. We&#8217;ve changed from our Saturday afternoon slot to a Tuesday evening slot, and it&#8217;s totally changed how the kids engage. I feel like we&#8217;ve finally found their swimming sweet spot.<\/p>\n<p>Our Saturday teacher was a woman named Simone who is a fantastic swimming teacher. Amelia bloomed under her, and grew by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately, Luka just couldn&#8217;t get into it. Worse&#8230; we were always late, and they were always waking up early from their naps to go.<\/p>\n<p>It was just way too hard to make it all happen, and so even though leaving Simone was a hard choice, we decided to try out a new night.<\/p>\n<p>I think Jenny is going to be a good teacher as well, but, more than anything else, I think we&#8217;re finally not stressing out their sleep cycle, it&#8217;s much easier to get there (and so we get the full lesson), and the class size is slightly smaller. It&#8217;s meant that Luka is finally putting his head under water, and Amelia just keeps getting better and better.<\/p>\n<p>It also gives us our Saturday afternoon&#8217;s back, and we don&#8217;t feel like we lose an entire day of the weekend to <strong>having<\/strong> to do kid&#8217;s activity.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t get why the pool would have their 1 &#8211; 2 year old classes at <strong>THE<\/strong> primo nap time for that age group. It just doesn&#8217;t make sense :-\/<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re really sad we&#8217;ve lost Simone, but we&#8217;re really excited about the kids being into swimming. We&#8217;ve found their swimming sweet spot \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just got back from swimming. We&#8217;ve changed from our Saturday afternoon slot to a Tuesday evening slot, and it&#8217;s totally changed how the kids engage. I feel like we&#8217;ve finally found their swimming sweet spot. Our Saturday teacher was a woman named Simone who is a fantastic swimming teacher. Amelia bloomed under her, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fatherhood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fvkR-fq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/family-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/family-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/family-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/family-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/family-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/family-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/family-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/family-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/family-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}