When do we develop 'conscious thought' .... post 4

Babies and toddlers (pre the development of conscious fear) are taught simple individual skills in a silly, fun way. These are practised regularly, consistently, repeatedly. As these skills become efficient and automatic progressions to a skill are introduced. Much like building a puzzle. Separate, individual pieces find where they fit, are joined to form a picture. The water skills become useful, little phases of an action. In other words, lots of 'parts' of a whole movement

Babies and toddlers do not think about what they are doing. They just feel .... comfortable or they will react to discomfort, intuitively. When learning to swim, that which is an incorrect movement feels uncomfortable. That which is correct feels really good and positive. Your connection with water is complete each time

Conscious thought to learn, the how and the why is your reward for personal achievement. That which we learn in this medium, water, is never forgotten

With 'conscious fear' comes 'conscious thought'. Such an interesting place to be. We can 'think' about fear and learning and not learning and why we want to and why we do not want to and we can make a choice. We can attempt to learn water skills, we can achieve. The 'thinking' will determine our attitude and our safety in and around water

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