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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
I can't swim. If you throw me in water over my nose I will die. Simple as that.
I had a couple of bad experiences when I was very young that created a fear of water - coupled with some very poor attempts to teach me that just made that fear worse.
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Unfortunately, this is me too. A horrible bully of an instructor when I was 6 or 7 plus being forced to jump into the deep end put me off water completely. It gave me a slight phobia for a few years as a kid too.
This thread has scared/shamed me into wanting to learn soon though. Especially because I want my 5 year old boy to have that ability.
Here's a quick, dumb question. Neither my wife or I can swim, and we had been looking to take our son out on a canoe on the reservoir. Are life jackets enough if we did happen to fall in? Or should we just scrap the idea altogether?