When my son was beginning to battle his fears of going under water in the pool I told him a story one night that I improvised. It was about a boy who wanted to swim like a fish. After he kept trying, with the support and encouragement of his mother, one day he did in fact swim just like a fish. A month or so later, when he stared taking lessons, he was getting good at swimming under the water, but sometimes his fears creeped back up on him. One of these moments during his swim lesson I told him that I would draw a picture of him as a fish if he would go under water. Well, he loved that idea and so these are what I did on the poolside, along with a few more later on:
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