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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 I taught one of my babies to swim underwater when she was between 6 and 9 months.  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]

To do this you really need to have a pool in your backyard and get in EVERY day.  You can't teach an infant the water skills by going to the pool 1 or 2 times a month, which is what most of us have time in our schedule to do.  If I had a pool in my backyard, I'd also be motivated to do this because it's so dangerous.  For the vast majority of kids, they can learn sometime between 3-7, depending on how fearful they are.  Yes some kids are incredibly fearful, and they may learn later.  But since we don't live in an area where everyone has backyard pools it's not quite the same risk as other parts of the country.[/quote]

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