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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By what age do kids know how to swim around here? [/quote]

If you have you child in the pool regularly as a toddler, and don’t use wings, or other floats as a crutch, but actively participate with them them in the pool and swimming, age 4 seems to be the natural time frame they can swim independently.  But unfortunately, lots of parents throw on the floaties so they can be hands free.  Teaching swimming is super easy, and you don’t need to be a great swimmer yourself.  But it has to be done before they afraid of water or heavily reliant on floaties. [/quote]

I have a very confident and athletic and strong 5 year old and he will not for the life of him put his head under the water or attempt to swim. He’s had 10 private swim lessons this winter and has made almost no progress. He barely tries to kick or paddle he just looks anxiously around him the whole time, and when he is supposed to put his head under to pick up a dive stick in like, waist deep water, he cries. He has never once worn floaties and we were at the pool 3-4x a week all summer since he was a baby. I don’t know what it is, he loves the water but only up to his waist. So basically, it is not a failure on my part nor on the part of many other parents!

He rode his bike without training wheels by 3.5, for reference. [/quote]
Try going to Great Wolf Lodge for a weekend.  Kids are so excited they forget to be afraid of it getting in their eyes.[/quote]

Thanks, maybe we should.  I mean this kid doesn't even like me washing his hair in the tub so he might just cry there too.  My older one is much less confident, athletic, and strong- a very bookish, lower energy kid- and he learned to swim from this exact same instructor in like 4 lessons when he was 5.  Because he actually wanted to learn to swim.  [/quote]

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