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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids were early swimmers, swimming across the pool, or down to retrieve things from the bottom before their 3rd birthdays, swimming 25 yards before their 4th.  I didn't really teach them, we just went to the pool a lot, and played and it just happened.

My oldest is now a swim instructor, and he's been watching videos on teaching kids how to swim, and he's been getting videos of people pouring water on their babies heads, saying that it prepares them to swim.

Both of my kids, as babies, loved to be in a shower with an adult, and later loved to play in the bathtub with the shower running.  I wasn't thinking "Oh, this will make them swimmers", I was just keeping them busy, but they certainly had water on their head and running down their faces a lot.  So, now I'm curious, those of you whose kids swam early, did they have similar experiences?  [/quote]

Bath time was enjoyable with your typical bath toys for both my kids, but I don't know that I'd call it some pivotal moment in their comfort/enjoyment of water sports.  When we joined a pool, we played a lot, throwing and diving after those torpedo toys or doing jumps from the side of the pool where we'd catch them or I'd throw them as high as possible in the air for them to dive back down. As far as the "teach" part, that didn't really happen until 4 or 5-ish, we're talking about 15 min. max at a time. I taught both to swim modeling after a video on youtube that I liked. Nothing complicated- just focusing on glide/superman, kicking, and then gradually working in the coordination of the crawl/breathing movement. We made a conscious decision never to use floaties/puddle jumper; we were motivated to get them as self-sufficient as possilbe and i think at least one or both were motivated to use the diving boards. [/quote]

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