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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the kids love the water and can get around the length of the pool unassisted, but it's not necessarily a nice pretty set of strokes.  Is that enough or am I supposed to keep making them go until they can do all the strokes properly?  I don't swim so I don't know.  They are good and comfortable enough to have fun a ton of fun and not worry me (still watching, of course).  [/quote]

Absolutely continue those lessons indefinitely.  My mother, who never learned to swim, forced me to do swim lessons until I was a teenager and reached the level where they don't go any higher, and then signed me up for lifeguarding and water safety classes.  It's been one of the most useful skills I've had in life.  First, there is the safety factor.  I can swim across a river, or out of a rip tide, and so on.  I can't believe how many people say they can swim, but then can't go further than 25 meters, because they don't actually have good enough form or enough knowledge to actually survive in the water past a few minutes (but they don't know it, of course).  The second reason is because swimming is fantastic exercise that many people turn to when they get older and can't handle running and weighlifting and so on, but many find they can't actually exercise very well this way because they don't have the technique to swim continuously for very far.  If at all.  It's much harder to learn as an adult than as a child.  You will be giving your kids a great, lifelong gift by keeping them in swim lessons for as long as possible.[/quote]

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