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[quote=Anonymous]Daily pool time involving you actually working with him on kicking and freestyle arms (breathing can come later).  Get a kickboard and watch a couple of YouTube videos to see how to use it to teach a proper kick.  Practice floating on back, with his head on your shoulder if needed.  Set actual goals (time spent floating, number of freestyle strokes in a row, distance traveled) and try to meet them.  Reward can be a jump off the side into deeper water (with you there to catch if he cant make it back to the wall himself).

Try to encourage focusing on learning in the water: lots of kids are so distracted by the fact that they are in a pool with things happening all around them that they hear very little of what is said to them.  Or they bob and bounce and play and doggy paddle rather than actually trying to swim.

Summer swim at its best is kind and encouraging to all.  But there is no pretending that it's easy to be a 10-year-old beginner, no matter how you slice it.  Good for you, OP, for trying to make this the transition year at age 8.  We're cheering for DS![/quote]

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