i am the only one in my gym class that SUCKS and i dont want to do swimming and my mom and dad tell me to HELP

Question

i am soooo bad at swimming it is not funny at all i try as hard as i can not to cry and to do good in swimming but i cry and do horabley :( i need help no with swimming just with a way to get out of it please help i dont need to swim in my life i rather not if i fall in a lake then i will drown o well i will learn then not now! please help me :( ( i need ear plugs and i keep on forgeting to bring it and that is my excuse :*( help me pleasee)

okay.. well i suck alot i mean i am soo bad i make a cat look like a better swimmer i need a way out :*( my mom and dad say just suffer through it at school but i cant its too hard i will be swimming for 8th,9th,10th,11th,12th then who knows how long after that!! and i will not take swimming lesons! i think its to late for that but like i matter that much i just hate swimming alot and i want any way out!! please help me ....!!!

i cant.... float....swim....i cant do anything in a pool of water and never could and prob. never will i hate my self soo much for just this

Answer 1

You need to explain to your mother how traumatic this is for you. If she wants you to swim, she should spring for private lessons. You should also talk to your school counselor, who can help you. Your swimming instructor probably will be unable to relate and will not understand your terror, but your school counselor will and should be able to intervene with your parents if necessary. I'm so sorry for you. Good luck.

Answer 2

First of all, you should use proper grammar and syntax when you type a question, because it's improper to write it that way when you want help. It's hard to understand what you need. Do you want help in appealing to your parents to quit swimming?

There are lots of reasons why you SHOULD know how to swim. Everyone can swim. What if you go to a pool party and you don't know how? You'd look quite daft.

Give your parents three appeals:

the SYMPATHETIC appeal: "it's so embarassing and I get really stressed out because I can't ever grasp it! There's something wrong with me, I was just NEVER meant to swim, okay?"

the LOGICAL appeal: "Honestly, it's not like I'll ever use it later in life. I should spend my time doing things that I can learn from and enjoy, and will be useful later. You shouldn't spend your money on something that doesn't work for me. If I'm not getting any better, you're just wasting ackers."

the ETHICAL appeal: "It's morally incorrect to make me do something that I don't want to do. You're a better person if you consider my feelings and understand that I don't want to do this anymore."


Those are the three rhetorical appeals that you must always LIVE by when you need to convince someone, especially parents. It is true that sometimes one appeals to your parents more than the others, but using only one is always harmful to your chances of success. The key is to mix it in a bit. Make sure there's not too much sympathy, or else you'll look pathetic.

The second two may sound pretty much the same, but the first of the two is a LOGICAL appeal and therefore works for the reasonable mind to make sense of the situation. The second one appeals to what is RIGHT. i.e.: morals, the better person, what is best for you. To make it fully effective, you must use both.

REMEMBER: Mix it up. You could do two at the same time, even. It will work.

Answer 3

Oh, I feel for you and your fear. Maybe you won't like my answer, but I'm going to encourage you to learn to swim. I give kids swimming lessons because I find that people who know how to swim have a more comfortable feeling about living on the planet.
First, you should know that swimming is NO BIG DEAL. Anyone can do it. We're made to be able to swim, with practically no effort. You only need to relax in the water and discover that if you lie still, with your arms and legs outstretched, you will float. It's easier on your stomach, so you need to hold your breath under water. Practice in the bathtub and you'll get it in no time. If you can float, you can save yourself anywhere, any time. That's really all you need to learn to become fearless. Get someone you trust to keep you company in the pool while you practice gently laying out in the water. You will be really surprised how good it feels. With your arms stretched out in front of you, floating, all you need to do is kick your feet a little, with your legs straight, not flopping with your knees bent. Just small kicks, laying outstretched in the water, and you will travel across the pool. There! You're swimming! Later you can learn to move your arms, but it's not so important. You can practice that on a piano bench.
When you try it the first time, have courage, keep your face in the water for enough time to kick six or eight times, and you'll have it. I guarantee, it will be one of the most exilarating things you've ever done.
Good luck!
The swimming psychologist

Answer 4

I know you don't know how to swim, but it would be very helpful in the future. It will help socially (say, going to a pool party or the beach with your friends) and in an emergency (like you said, in a lake). If you never want to enter the water, then you'll have to deal with occasionally your friends leaving you for water-fun, and you probably shouldn't risk your life going on a boat for that matter either.

If you'd like to know how to help yourself get more comfortable with the water, try this: Go to the shallow end of the pool. Kneel down, and then try floating, using your legs and arms to keep yourself in one spot. Then, try moving yourself forward, kicking your legs like a frog. And from there, it's basically just dog-paddling or actual swimming

Answer 5

if it helps just know that other people (me) don't know how to swim either. Maybe you could try one or two private swimming lessons. u would be the only one (except the teacher) and wouldn't be with a bunch of little kids or anything. Private lessons would give you a little more confidence with swimming in just like one class, but you wouldn't have to take this whole big class thing that lasts forever. As for the getting out of swimming in gym, i don't know what you could do except talk to the teacher and explain that you REALLY REALLY don't feel comfortable with swimming

Answer 6

Hop in and hug the wall of the pool or something. If you learn to swim I'm sure you'll be glad that you did. I understand that you under no circumstances want to learn or even get in though. Maybe you can be diagnosed with severe aquaphobia(fear of water), which may get you a doctor's excuse to never get in any kind of water ever again.

My advice is just to get in. It's not that bad. Then again, I enjoy swimming and don't know what it feels like to be you, so, tell them your an aquaphobic.

read through this website a bit to learn about aquaphobia, maybe even learn some symptoms of it that you can exaggerate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaphobia

Answer 7

Ack! How horrible. I'm not a very good swimmer either.

Will your parents pay for additional swimming lessons? Private ones are great. You get individual attention (so the teacher can help you more, and watch to see what you need help with) and the pressure is off because nobody's grading you and none of your classmates are around to compare yourself to.

Good luck, miss.

Answer 8

You really need to learn how to swim. You need to lear now so that you dont drown.Trust me I nearly drowned in a swimming pool and it was not much fun.Find a friend that you trust that can help you learn to swim.You just lack confidence which needs to be built up with a few swimming lessons.

Answer 9

I doubt you're the only one in your gym class that has problems or anxiety. I hated swimming in gym class too. Didn't care much for gym overall really... But it was just something I had to do.

My parents had me go take some lessons at the local rec. center/YMCA and then I was at least able to handle swimming in gym class. I still didn't like it...but I got through it. Then the class moved onto volleyball, which I was sort of good at.

Realistically no one expects you to be tops in everything - just do your best. It's always best to emphasize what you're good at anyways.

Answer 10

First off, if it is your gym class, they should have asked you if you are able to swim and if not, they should have been teaching you. It's hard to teach someone to swim with words --- I taught swimming. I don't understand why they aren't helping you. Can you ask your gym teacher for some after school help in the pool? Don't cry either ---- NONE OF US -- SERIOUSLY, NONE OF US ARE GOOD AT EVERYTHING.