Green Feet Swimming
2025-12-29T15:12:21.596Z
Green Feet came highly recommended on a FB parent group for neurodivergent children. I was very excited when I was able to secure a spot as I know they fill up quickly. I signed up with a female instructor because my son generally does better with females. Upon arriving at the first session, we were told our son would be with a different instructor (a male) because another swimmer who was originally signed up with him didn't feel comfortable with males. (This I annoying because parents can see the names of the instructors at the time of signup. We weren't really given an option to object or if we did then we'd look like a-hole parents.)We didn't have time to speak to the instructor beforehand about our son's specific needs. (The ones I took time to describe at the time of the sign up, which now felt like a huge waste of time on my part.) The young man already appeared uncomfortable because of the switch up so we just encouraged our son from the sidelines and didn't intervene. At the end of the session, I approached the young man to share a little about our son and ask if the had any questions. He immediately seemed on the offense and made a comment that he had experience with lots of different types children so I took it that he had worked with autistic children before and left it at that.The following week, the young man was out so we had another instructor filling in. Our son was out the following week due to illness and then Thanksgiving (no session due to holiday). In the sessions that followed, the male instructor seemed bored. I observed him checking the clock quite a bit. He didn't make any real effort to engage with our son other than the minimum. He generally seemed uncomfortable.In hindsight I wouldn't have signed him up at this time due to the holiday breaks and asked A LOT more questions.All in all, I was dissatisfied. As a parent, it's frustrating to put so much time into the sign up explaining our son's specific needs only to have him abruptly changed to a new instructor. Neurodivergent children need routine and having inconsistency with instructors was bothersome. (The info sent home indicates a specific instructor can't be guaranteed, but I didn't think it would change this much and often over just a few weeks.) The one pro is the fact it is an smaller setting, there was only one other swimmer in the pool. We have done swim lessons with the county prior and it was too overstimulating for our son.
Green Feet came highly recommended on a FB parent group for neurodivergent children. I was very excited when I was able to secure a spot as I know th... More