Posts Tagged "swim"

Swim Class Success Training

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Swim Class Success Training

  Ever wonder what a private parent coaching call sounds like? This one that I did with a parent started with a text: My almost 4-year-old threw a mega tantrum at swim class today 🙁   I tried  hard to do SAY WHAT YOU SEE! Tried to be super empathic, match her emotion and everything went to heck. She had been begging me to do swim classes because her sister was doing them, so I...

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Flipping Failure to Success

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Flipping Failure to Success

Sometimes our fears and breakthroughs are two sides of the same coin. One I flipped was fear of failure. As a child, I often followed a pattern of sticking to things I already knew or was sure I could master. That was me being a perfectionist — "Do it right or not at all." I couldn't allow myself to fail. The fear lived in my mind like a stern commandment: "You can't fail!" I didn't like it,...

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