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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People always say swimming but I am not sure earlier for lessons is always better. With my oldest we spent boatloads of money and so much money on swim lessons from the time he was 6 months old. Sure he could kind of swim at 3 or 4 but we had to keep up the lessons so he wouldn't lose it. So many private lessons and very small group lessons. We must have spent thousands of dollars.

My younger son liked splashing around in a pool but didn't like lessons. We tried lessons once and realized it was a waste of money. The rec classes 5 and under didn't seem worth it. The summer he turned 6 we put him in a rec swim class and he ended up in a class with all older kids so he had to keep up. It was a two week every day class. By the tenth day of class he was swimming. By the end of the next two week class he could swim a lap of the pool - his form was awful but he was swimming in a month for around $120. He kept taking lessons and by the end of summer he was able to join swim team. He was a better swimmer at that age than his older brother was at 6 1/2 who had lessons from age 6 months that cost thousands in total.    [/quote]

+1 - we wasted so much money on swim classes on our kid; if we were to do again, would start structured swim at either 4 or 5 and before that just expose them to the water.

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