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[quote=Anonymous]I want to just echo 23:43 re swim lessons but I'm not trying to take this on a tangent.  I just want to say that my 9 and 11 y.o. did not know how to swim last Christmas.

I put them in semi-private swim lessons (just the two of them) for 1/2 hour every week for wow, it was about 10 lessons only (through the city of Arlington's program).  I did this because we were going to the west coast and I wanted them to be in my home town's Jr. Lifeguard program and there is an entrance test in both the pool and in the ocean.

My kids passed the swim tests and have been swimming in the ocean five days a week now for 6 weeks.

I'm telling you this, OP, because it doesn't take much for kids this age to learn to swim.  My kids were swimming, although a bit clumsily, after just a few (one--three) lessons.  And their coach told me 1/2 hour is plenty; short lessons like that but over time is best (so they sleep on it and it gets into the part of the brain where it becomes automatic)

I did put them in swimming once when they were little kids and you know, they did not get it at all.  Eleven is a great age for this!  I want to reiterate that I went with semi-private or would go private with one kid--I think it made all the difference to have someone really watching your kid's technique.

You may already be back from the beach, OP, and if so, let us know how it went.[/quote]

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