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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is ridiculously easy to teach kids to swim as long as you are consistent and frequently go to pool.  Parents are just too lazy to get in the water [/quote]

Maybe your kids, not all kids. Stop generalizing a-hole.[/quote]

Well, it’s true.  Goldfish swim is for parents that are too lazy to get into the pool regularly with their child and actually take an initiative to teach them.
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I realize an old post has been bumped but my experience is that 1) you won’t get anywhere with goldfish if you don’t ALSO take them to the pool regularly; 2) many children are unwilling to learn from their parents.  I actually know several people with swim teaching experience who can’t teach (some of) their own children.

We did lessons (largely at Goldfish) with all our kids but we also spent a lot of the time in the pool with them and working on skills with them.[/quote]

This. Most kids need regular exposure to the water to become comfortable in the water and learn how to swim. My kids all had lessons and then we also swam outside of class. My niece has had swim lessons for the past three years and still can’t swim independently at 6, so for some kids swim lessons are really not enough to build proficiency - especially if they are off and on. Most parents are not swim instructors and don’t want to spend the little time that they have with their kids in the pool drilling one child on swimming and water safety nor do they want pool time to be synonymous with learning new swim techniques (not all children are open to learning from their parents and not all parents know to teach swimming).[/quote]

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