Permission

After reading Permission, I was sort of confused. This short story I felt was very difficult to understand. I am not 100% sure of what this short story was actually about. I also wasn't exactly sure if this was coming from a Father perspective or a Mothers perspective. When the narrator  says "They put each pile away, and I snapped my daughter into an unappealing one-piece, and I had to ask my son to swimsuit himself, my hands incapable of doing it" I instantly thought that this was the mother talking. However, reading further the narrator stated "I held the kids tight until they pushed me off and swam away and left me there to listen to our dead son with my wife, sitting on her lap down at the bottom, discussing the house together, making plans to move" this seemed to becoming from the fathers perspective. One thing, I did understand from this story was that a son died. I assumed by this line in the short story "My son came over. I saw his feet beneath the surface kicking hard- and then I saw down there, below his kicking feet, his brother." From this line in the short story, I assumed that the son died from a drowning incident and that is most likely why the narrator held the kids tightly before they swam away.