Reply to If your kids swam at a young age, without a lot of lessons, did you . . .

Forum Index » Swimming and Diving

Reply to "If your kids swam at a young age, without a lot of lessons, did you . . . "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both of my kids spent tons of time in the water as infants/toddlers - baths, showers, beach, pool. Grandparents live in Florida and have a pool. Parents big swimmers so lots of pool time.

One of my kids swam early and the other did not. The one who did not loved water including being the pool, but HATED putting her face in the water initially. She was 4 before she was okay putting her face in (happened during swim lessons, not while playing in the water with us). She learned to swim around 4, was independent in the water by 5, now a really strong swimmer at 8 and actually likes swimming more than my other kid who swam at 2.5. She's on a club swimming team and my other kid has no interest in competitive swimming.

I believe in early exposure to water and demystifying it and teaching water safety really early. I strongly oppose this idea that you can teach a child to swim by tossing them in the pool and letting instincts take over. Some kids might do okay with it but other kids will be traumatized and it will make them not want to go in the water at all.

People fixate way too much on kids learning skills like swimming, biking, etc. early. In the end, the difference between learning at 2 versus 4 or 5 is negligible. Maybe it matters for olympic swimmers but actually I bet you can find examples of swim champions who started later and took to it really fast which would get you a similar result.[/quote]

Most drownings happen to kids between 1 and 4. The earlier they can swim the better.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics