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[quote=Anonymous]I read the other post about nannies who don't swim.  I just wanted to encourage adults to learn to swim.  I got my Water Safety Instructor certificate in college and volunteered to teach swimming at the local YWCA every year to keep my license current.  One time, when I was about 22, they gave me a class of adults (all of them were women, but the YWCA taught males and females).  Anyway I was scared to death to teach adults.  But I had 6 women, all in different stages of their lives and all had their own reasons for wanting to learn to swim.

As a teacher, I was so impressed with each woman for wanting to learn to swim later in life.  One person was around 30 and was getting married and her fiance wanted to go snorkeling.  Another woman was about 65 and said she never learned to swim but always wanted to know how to.  As a teacher of older students, I had to make some adjustments to style, but each one worked so hard and to this day I was so grateful to be able to teach a beginners class of adults.  (It turns out they were not scary at all.)

So if you want to learn to swim, find an adult class to take.  They have classes just for adults, but you have to look around.   It is nice to take a group class, because then you feel that you are in the same situation as other students.  Swimming is fun and it is the only way to safely do other water activities you may be missing out on. [/quote]

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