My dad did that to me and I chose death. Dumb fuck sure showed him.
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.
My parents did the same…they are from the 70s and 60s…
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.
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.
I wanna know more about the social emotional learning
I love how genx think shit like this is a flex. It’s not. It’s called child abuse.
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.
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.
Look at that form, this is definitely not his first time tossing a child into a pool
Unc really makes it look effortless.
If they come back they’ll come home stronger and if they don’t you’ll know…
I came home with trauma
Improves the gene pool, dontcha know?
