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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By 3 our girls could go off the diving board, go under from the jump, and swim to the side of the diving well.  I'd find a better teacher or program.[/quote]

NP. This is unusually young. I taught swim lessons for ten years to ages 2-10 and only ever had a handful of kids who could do that before the age of 3.[/quote]

It is definitely unusually young but [b]I taught one of my babies to swim underwater when she was between 6 and 9 months[/b].  She could climb up to the diving board by 2 and jump in the deep end, swim to the ladder and climb out.  By the time a child is 2 or 3 they become more fearful and somewhat headstrong and it is harder to teach them than when they are still nonverbal infants.  Seems like most parents are too cautious themselves to do what I did but I had read a book with a specific technique and it worked well with my child.[/quote]

You really waited that long to teach your kids to swim?  We definitely had ours swimming underwater by 3 months old.[/quote]

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