My peeps, I must seek your advice on a non A related issue. I have been working out at the Y five days a week...M, W, F are regular work out days, T and Thurs are swim days.
There is a children's swim class at the time I hit the pool- most of the kids are great with their lessons, but there is one little dude and I mean LITTLE- like only two or three years old. He is clearly terrified to be in the pool and has screaming, shrieking melt downs each time, but today was the melt down of all melt downs...shrieking for fifteen minutes straight. His instructor and mom didn't let him out of the pool, made him finish his little laps with his swim noodle and he was red in the face screaming the entire time.
Number one, it seems like abuse to me. He's the littlest kid there, most of the others are five and up. Second, it is really disruptive to everybody else in the area.
I'm friendly with one of the staffers at the front desk. Should I mention it to her tomorrow? I really would think there would be rules about disruptive behavior- and while I understand the little guy isn't trying to be disruptive (he's just scared out of his mind) he is. I really don't want to change my swim times, as it fits in perfectly with how the rest of my day unfolds.
If they won't have a chat with his mom about pulling him from class for a couple of years, I guess I'll have to go to the north side Y for swimming.
It's really hard for me to see...my ex sis in law and her hubs used to force our nephew into hockey gear several times a week, with him kicking and screaming the whole time. While at practice, he was being continually harassed by another kid and during exercises, he would stand and stare at the boards until it was his turn to skate out, hit the puck, whatever. He would do so halfheartedly and go back and stare at the boards. He couldn't have made it more clear that he was completely hating the whole experience. I think the instructors finally had a chat with his folks and he was mercifully excused from hockey, but it broke my heart while it was happening.
There is a children's swim class at the time I hit the pool- most of the kids are great with their lessons, but there is one little dude and I mean LITTLE- like only two or three years old. He is clearly terrified to be in the pool and has screaming, shrieking melt downs each time, but today was the melt down of all melt downs...shrieking for fifteen minutes straight. His instructor and mom didn't let him out of the pool, made him finish his little laps with his swim noodle and he was red in the face screaming the entire time.
Number one, it seems like abuse to me. He's the littlest kid there, most of the others are five and up. Second, it is really disruptive to everybody else in the area.
I'm friendly with one of the staffers at the front desk. Should I mention it to her tomorrow? I really would think there would be rules about disruptive behavior- and while I understand the little guy isn't trying to be disruptive (he's just scared out of his mind) he is. I really don't want to change my swim times, as it fits in perfectly with how the rest of my day unfolds.
If they won't have a chat with his mom about pulling him from class for a couple of years, I guess I'll have to go to the north side Y for swimming.
It's really hard for me to see...my ex sis in law and her hubs used to force our nephew into hockey gear several times a week, with him kicking and screaming the whole time. While at practice, he was being continually harassed by another kid and during exercises, he would stand and stare at the boards until it was his turn to skate out, hit the puck, whatever. He would do so halfheartedly and go back and stare at the boards. He couldn't have made it more clear that he was completely hating the whole experience. I think the instructors finally had a chat with his folks and he was mercifully excused from hockey, but it broke my heart while it was happening.
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