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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think any pool prohibits a PARENT from teaching their own kid how to swim. That would be outrageous. Private coaching involves the exchange of money.

If it wasn't painfully obvious from the exchange above, they may not explicitly prohibit teaching, but they prevent parents from using common instructional aids (which are used in the pools lessons) and aggressively push their premium lessons. The pool instructors often interfere with instruction.

don't use pool noodles and other obvious training aid and don't go into a lap lane. problem solved?

At some point kids will be strong enough that they will need to practice in a lap lane, that opens a whole other can of worms. Instructors optimizing lanes. Why do they always jump in our lanes, why not that other lane, can't the instructors share lanes. Why do they always have their kids swim in front of mine while we are trying to practice diving etc.

I literally never have these problems with a private pool's instructors.

We really need to defund those public pools see that we aren't smiling ): .

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think any pool prohibits a PARENT from teaching their own kid how to swim. That would be outrageous. Private coaching involves the exchange of money.

If it wasn't painfully obvious from the exchange above, they may not explicitly prohibit teaching, but they prevent parents from using common instructional aids (which are used in the pools lessons) and aggressively push their premium lessons. The pool instructors often interfere with instruction.

don't use pool noodles and other obvious training aid and don't go into a lap lane. problem solved?

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think any pool prohibits a PARENT from teaching their own kid how to swim. That would be outrageous. Private coaching involves the exchange of money.

If it wasn't painfully obvious from the exchange above, they may not explicitly prohibit teaching, but they prevent parents from using common instructional aids (which are used in the pools lessons) and aggressively push their premium lessons. The pool instructors often interfere with instruction.

I don’t think any pool prohibits a PARENT from teaching their own kid how to swim. That would be outrageous. Private coaching involves the exchange of money.

when my boys were younger (4 and about 6), i took them to a fairfax county rec center once a week to teach them to swim over the course of winter. I'd work on streamlines, kicking, and then freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke. I got more out of that versus signing them up for basic lessons through the county. I didn't draw attention to myself - we were in the open/beach area so not in a lane or anything and we mixed it up with games. No one said anything.

I don’t think any county pools, Y branches, or fitness club pools allow ppl to give private lessons. They have their own instructors/classes you pay for

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone is gonna say anything about you teaching your 6mo to blow bubbles.
I took my kid with a friend once a week from 6mos to 3.5 to get comfortable in the water. Blew bubbles, face in, floating etc. Then started lessons with a teacher at 3.5.
I don’t know any public pools that allow you to hire an outside teacher and then use their pool to teach strokes/technique.

I think it is a good idea though. The swim instructors at the public pools don't even know how to use floaties to help kids learn how to swim.

That’s because you’re not supposed to use floaties to learn how to swim ……..

Bingo. If you want to your kid to never learn or be proficient, strap them to any flotation device! This way they never learn to float, the basis for all swimming

You never learned to think did you? Someone told you what to do every second you were in the pool. Swim instruction = lifelong ignorance.

Any good instruction involves a number of different devices. In this particular situation, I was using the floatie to balance the buoyancy from the swim diapers, that were preventing her from keeping her head up, so that she would use her arms to start moving around, instead of having a death grip on me. The oversized life preservers were totally inappropriate for this purpose and cause undersized swimmers heads to be forced down.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone is gonna say anything about you teaching your 6mo to blow bubbles.
I took my kid with a friend once a week from 6mos to 3.5 to get comfortable in the water. Blew bubbles, face in, floating etc. Then started lessons with a teacher at 3.5.
I don’t know any public pools that allow you to hire an outside teacher and then use their pool to teach strokes/technique.

I think it is a good idea though. The swim instructors at the public pools don't even know how to use floaties to help kids learn how to swim.

That’s because you’re not supposed to use floaties to learn how to swim ……..

Bingo. If you want to your kid to never learn or be proficient, strap them to any flotation device! This way they never learn to float, the basis for all swimming

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone is gonna say anything about you teaching your 6mo to blow bubbles.
I took my kid with a friend once a week from 6mos to 3.5 to get comfortable in the water. Blew bubbles, face in, floating etc. Then started lessons with a teacher at 3.5.
I don’t know any public pools that allow you to hire an outside teacher and then use their pool to teach strokes/technique.

I think it is a good idea though. The swim instructors at the public pools don't even know how to use floaties to help kids learn how to swim.

That’s because you’re not supposed to use floaties to learn how to swim ……..

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone is gonna say anything about you teaching your 6mo to blow bubbles.
I took my kid with a friend once a week from 6mos to 3.5 to get comfortable in the water. Blew bubbles, face in, floating etc. Then started lessons with a teacher at 3.5.
I don’t know any public pools that allow you to hire an outside teacher and then use their pool to teach strokes/technique.

I think it is a good idea though. The swim instructors at the public pools don't even know how to use floaties to help kids learn how to swim.

I don’t think anyone is gonna say anything about you teaching your 6mo to blow bubbles.
I took my kid with a friend once a week from 6mos to 3.5 to get comfortable in the water. Blew bubbles, face in, floating etc. Then started lessons with a teacher at 3.5.
I don’t know any public pools that allow you to hire an outside teacher and then use their pool to teach strokes/technique.

Anonymous wrote:My kid learned at the Montgomery County indoor pool in Rockville. He was learning to swim, not getting stroke or turn lessons or anything like that, so it may not have been obvious that was happening, though.

That's what I do but it's a fight. When my daughter was six months old, I had some of those swim aids on her, not for life saving. "WHISLE!!! NO NON-COAST-GUARD APPROVED whatevers., use the ones on the rack", Me: Looking at the rack of life preservers, "But she is under thirty five pounds there are no coast guard approved life preservers for kids under thirty five pounds." Lifeguard: "I DON'T CARE. DON'T USE THE EDUCATIONAL SWIM AIDS. Pay for a class" The pool staff are quite antagonistic towards anyone teaching their children at any of the public pools, especially the private instructors but also the lifeguards.

I reported them to the Red Cross. We really need to defund these places.

We joined a local pool, low and behold they provide the swim aids thick pool noodles, those barbell shaped floaties and what not, what a difference had my second kid swimming in no time.

My kid learned at the Montgomery County indoor pool in Rockville. He was learning to swim, not getting stroke or turn lessons or anything like that, so it may not have been obvious that was happening, though.

I’d be curious about Fairfax County too. The rec centers have the same rule.

PG County and Howard County pools don’t allow private lessons with your own coach if they are not affiliated with the pool.