Congratulations to your daughter for sticking it out. It does show strength of character and determination. You are right to feel proud of her.
Well done for making the right decision and not being her crutch. She now knows that she can do these things by herself and is as good if not better than some of the others.
It will have done her confidence no end of good and not only for diving.
Well done for making the right decision and not being her crutch. She now knows that she can do these things by herself and is as good if not better than some of the others.
It will have done her confidence no end of good and not only for diving.
grassyknoll:Just thought I would share my experience. Last weekend my 13 year old daughters had her OW class pool dives. I joined the class as her buddy and we had a great time, she breezed through most of the pool and classroom work without any issues. This weekend was a whole different story, she had her certification dives at a local lake-5ml from head to toe, steel 72 tank and 24 lbs of lead (the instructors do like them overweighted in class don't they). Air temp was between 45-60, water temp 48-50, less than a foot of visibility. We started the class last weekend with 16, by this Sunday we were down to 9. with all the differences between pool and lake (cold, weighted like crazy, no visiblity, windy with choppy water etc...) it was a tough time for her. I realized at the end of the first day that I needed to remove myself from the picture. By being her buddy she had an easy "out", she could tell me how cold it was and how she was having a hard time with certain things and how she didn't know if she could do it. Once I asked one of the DMs to pair her with another student she calmed down and handled herself. It wasn't an easy thing for me to do but I knew it was the right thing, her familiarity with me was offereing her a crutch when she really needed to focus and rise to the challenge, I am extremely proud of her for completing a class tat quite a few adults bailed out of.