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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 points 54 minutes ago

I love that boomers will post this and say everyone younger than them is weak, but then they will call the cops if there are kids outside having fun.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 minutes ago

My parents did the same...they are from the 70s and 60s...

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

That literally happened to me. Dad and uncle tossing little me between themselves in waist-high (to them) sea. One of them missed, and I slipped under and drifted away.

It was years before I would go near any water. Eventually got over it, but... yeah.

[–] GorGor@startrek.website 25 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Watching my kids take swim lessons I am super impressed how they KNOW how to teach. They have a slow steady progression of techniques that build on eachother. Same with gymnastics. Build strength, technique and confidence. No need to terrify kids.

In a similar vein, the social emotional learning they are teaching kids is great.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 hours ago

I wanna know more about the social emotional learning

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

I love how genx think shit like this is a flex. It’s not. It’s called child abuse.

[–] MomoGajo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I got lessons as soon as feasible due to this. My grandpa did this to my mom and now even in her 60s she can't go past her waist without visibly panicking.

[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

There is a home video of me when I was like 6 happily swimming around in a lake with my family, equipped with flotation devices. I was having a great time, laughing and clearly enjoying myself.

Then my grandfather comes and forcibly removes all of my flotation devices and drags me out deep to force me to swim back to "teach" me how to swim. The whole time I was being dragged out I was shouting "No! No! Not like this!"

It's a wonder I don't have a fear of water.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Look at that form, this is definitely not his first time tossing a child into a pool

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 1 points 6 hours ago

Unc really makes it look effortless.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

If they come back they’ll come home stronger and if they don’t you’ll know…

[–] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago

I came home with trauma

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 5 points 10 hours ago

Improves the gene pool, dontcha know?