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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to be a swim instructor and life guard. It was when I was in college, and I taught my own DD to swim. I worked with her 1 one 1 a lot, and it took 2 summers of dedicated effort. We were in the pool several times a week working one on one.

Start out with the basics - putting face in, blowing bubbles, full submersion, floating on back, floating on tummy, swimming to the bottom to get rings in very shallow water,  glides, bobs, straight leg kicking on back and tummmy, frog kick, kicks with a board, dog paddle, and then progress from there. I liked to refer to the Red Cross swimming levels and skills to keep me on track for what to work on. My DD was 5 and 6 when she learned, but she didnt really get motivated to learn until she couldn’t swim with friends in the deep end and felt embarrassed having to wear a puddle jumper. [/quote]

Did you teach her all of the different styles?   The crawl, butterfly, side stroke, back crawl?  I would find all that difficult to teach.   We swam in the pool a lot when she was five and I would just remind her to keep fingers together, the different kicks.   She needed lessons to go further.   [/quote]

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