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[quote=Anonymous]I highly recommend joining a pool and getting your kids in the water as much as possible.  Without spending A LOT of time in the water, it is really tough for kids to learn how to swim, and they can develop a fear of the water that is hard to overcome.

We have two kids, 5 and 2, and we just joined our neighborhood pool this summer.  We held off in previous years because its expensive to join and our oldest son has always been REALLY fearful of the water.  In February of this year we went to Florida for a week and stayed in a house where there was a pool in the backyard.  At the beginning of the week my 5 year old would literally just stand in the shallow end of the pool holding onto the wall and was too scared to jump in or take a few steps into the pool.  He got less scared as the week went on and he would take a few steps into the pool.  After that I signed him up for swim lessons and every weekend I took both of the boys to the local indoor public pool by our house for recreational swim.  When we joined the pool this summer he signed up for the pre-team and had "practice" four days a week for a month or so.  We also went every weekend to give him as much pool time as possible, and have continued going in the afternoons when I get home from work now that pre-team is over.  At this point, he can take about 8-10 strokes of freestyle in a row, so he is very close to swimming completely.  I really credit his improvement to just being in the pool as much as possible.  The lessons help but if they don't have time in the water, they don't learn to be comfortable or practice the skills they are developing.   [/quote]

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