My 7 son year old son is just learning to swim. He will be in lessons this year. My mother just built a pool with a small section where he can barely touch, and the rest is very deep and very large. She watches my son every Friday while I'm at work. I know that my son and my 4 younger brothers and sister (12, 10, 9, 7, & 3 - adopted) will be swimming a lot.
Here's the problem - my mother is awful at watching children in the pool. She has a different view than I do on it. She walks away, sits down where she can't see them, puts a 10 year old in charge of watching 5 young children, etc. Now I'm in the situation that I have to not let my son go there on Fridays (which would hurt her feelings & make her mad), say that my son can't go swimming (which is impossible because there will be 5 other kids swimming) or ask my mom to watch him carefully (which she probably wouldn't do anyways & would be mad about).
What should I do?
Thank you!!
2007-05-24
07:40:55
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