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[quote=Anonymous]I had two early swimmers who sounded a lot like your kid.

Up until 4, we only "played".  We didn't do anything that my kids perceived of as "work" or as "practice". Some of the things we did were jumping in and swimming across the pool to me, with my distance gradually increasing; swimming through my legs and then surfacing; diving for sticks, for in water they could stand in and later slightly over their head; getting on my back and swimming around the pool with their arms around my neck but otherwise floating freely; water slides that came out in water above their head; sharks and minnows . . . just lots of things that got them pushing their limits a little bit and swimming while I saw so they saw how my arms moved and imitated me.  Games that got her surfacing, and getting their head above the water, and treading water helped.  We sort of went from submerge, and swim up and grab something (mom, or the wall) to submerge, swim up and breathe and then go back to swimming, to being able to stay more on the surface.  We also did a lot of just kicking the legs, underwater before adding the arms.

Then at 4 turning 5, my kids went to swim team.  Both kids could swim the length of the pool in a not so pretty freestyle, so they were able to skip preteam.  [/quote]

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