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[quote=Anonymous]My kid could swim like a fish from about 2.  No lessons, he just figured it out on his own within weeks of getting in the pool for the first time in his life.  It was his "thing", the way some other kids read early or ride a bike early or can talk your ear off at 2.  He was sort of late on all of those things.

In our experience, at 2, and 3 he was usually the only swimmer his age at the pool.  Between 4 and 6 the other kids gradually began to pick it up.  When I say gradually, I mean that there was a gradual shift between the majority of the kids not swimming and the majority of the kids swimming.  For individual kids, however, the transition seems like it's pretty sudden.  Kids would spend a long time working on floating or kicking their feet, or putting their head in the water (either in lessons, or working with a parent, or just exploring those activities on their own) and then one day it would all come together and they'd be a swimmer although with far from perfect form.

I will also say that my kid who loved the pool from about 2 - 8, and wanted to be in the water every minute, never had any interest in lessons or team.  He did take some lessons because they were required by camp, but the other kids quickly passed him in levels because he wasn't motivated to develop his strokes in anyway.  Now as a teenager he really has no interest in the pool, and his strokes are awful.  So, early swimming is not really predictive of anything, at least based on my anecdotal evidence of one kid.[/quote]

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