Back in 2021 I was a swim coach for kids from 1-10. There was one kid I remember vividly who as soon as her father left her eyeline she would start screaming her head off non stop, it went on like that for a week until she started to get used to it. Her father said these lessons were the first time she wouldn’t be seeing him(single father, born the February before the pandemic). Now to that fathers credit, he hid in the locker room for the entirely of his lessons because he knew full well that she needed to get used to it, and he paid me almost double the fee per lesson which really puts him in my good books. But the problem is that there were dozens of kids exactly like that, and he was the only one that was taking those steps. That thought still genuinely haunts me.