Sounds like fun - the investigative approach you are adopting haha. Could it be that she really likes her swimming instructor - his sense of humour etc?

Exactly! That's why I want to learn from the swimming example and make her other settings ones she can thrive in without radically changing her personality.

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I think parenting really drives home what 

 is all about. In an ideal world, I would have wanted my son to behave in certain ways - but do I want him to change himself drastically to follow my tune? Hell no. So I accept and meet him halfway

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I think parenting really drives home what *unconditional love* is all about. In an ideal world, I would have wanted my son to behave in certain ways - but do I want him to change himself drastically to follow my tune? Hell no. So I accept and meet him halfway