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librtyhead Original500© Member 
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This is high on my priorities this year, last year we had a 3 year old over that could swim like a fish! While my daughter hung on to the edge. This year I promised myself to teach,teach,teach so she can swim. If it ever warms up that is!
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24HourNut Administrator  Body pillows rock!
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I feel this is very important, and my wife has me extra paranoid about this. They take swimming lessons each summer and spend a lot of time on it and practicing when they stay at their grandparents. I'd say start making sure they can swim by 5 or so ....
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it's an urgent priority! make them comfortable in the water and you drown-proof them!
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CARLA Original500© Member  Aloha San Diego is Paradise.!!
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 LC is correct I taught back yard swimming for years with my mother( a YMCA project in the 50's to teach kids to swim in their own pools in back yards). Don't force them ever just get them comfortable with the water first. If they need floatee things on their arms and a vest do it. First they need to not fear the water.Then you remove the floatee thing one at a time and usually start with you hands at the small of their back and let them see what it feels like to float on there back. Keeping their face out of the water, some kids freak when water get on their face. Then you have them hang onto the side and kick their feet. Then have them put their face in the water standing in the shallow end. The you have them try floating face down and on there back little by little they get the feel of what floating is like. It is a process that be very quick with some kids, and not so quick with others. The key is they can't fear the water or you will get no where. In most cases it is a great idea to start with a professional swim teacher to get basics taught to them with other kids their age around.
Last edited on 03:33 pm by CARLA Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up worn out screaming what a ride.. |
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i disagree with floating devices. they are crutches. they need to swim under their own power. my Dad swam the width of the chesapeake bay, he was a champion navy swimmer. so when i was able to walk i was put in the water. it was sink or swim. then i was put on SCUBA. 
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I think the earlier one learns to swim, the better. I learned to swim in the Atlantic Ocean when I was just three. It is possible to learn at any age though...I taught my college (university for you Brits and Canadians) roommate to swim at the approximate age of 20.
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I put my son in the water and let him swim with me holding him up by the belly when he was less than 1 month old, later with a toy frog flotation ring, then on his own when he felt like it. Very close supervision for years. I had seen the amazing video of children born underwater and immediately swimming. The general reasoning was to get the baby to swim within 30 days, but you don't let them sink!
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Britt Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Learning Contentment
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I agree with you all 100%. If there is the slightest chance your child will be near a body of water within his lifetime (99.9% of us, ha-ha), he had better know how to swim. You never know when you will need this vital skill, even if you live in the desert. We have all heard tragic stories of children dying in a boating accident because they could not swim. In New Mexico, we have arroyos or trenches that fill with water within seconds, and several children without swimming ability die every year. It is a terrible and imminently preventable tragedy. I wish you luck, librtyhead!
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Pussycat Forum-Blogger© Pioneer100© Member  Angel of Mischief!
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Being a very poor swimmer myself (ok underwater for as long as I can hold my breath, but swim like a brick on the surface!)... I decided very early on that my kids would be able to swim, so I did what any determined parent would have done under the circumstances, when they were 4, 6, and 8 respectively. I took them to a pool, and said ..."Listen to me....When you can swim a width I will give you 3 quid, and when you can swim a length you will get another 5 quid" (pounds sterling - a lot of money to them!) Needless to say within the week, I was nursing an empty purse! But they could all swim like fish! I know, it verges on bribery, (I prefer to call it incentive), but hey, it might save their lives one day! And I was so proud of them!
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Pussycat wrote: I know, it verges on bribery, (I prefer to call it incentive), but hey, it might save their lives one day! And I was so proud of them! 
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CARLA Original500© Member Aloha San Diego is Paradise.!!
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I personally don't like flotee devices but sometime its the only way to get them comfortable with the water. If they have the slightest fear when you start teaching them they will never learn and be afraid for the rest of their lives. I don't reccommend using them for any length of time just in the beginning then throw them away. I have spent my entire life in the water I live in San Diego California that's what we do out here swim and surf, so I know a bit about it. Fear is the biggest problem with kids once that is overcome most of them love the water and become fish. What is good about lessons is the pools are designed with kids in mind very shallow every where and kept at a warmer temperature then you or I would like, most of the time they can touch the bottom. I have spent weeks with 1 child just getting them to trust themselves in water. Each one is different I know many adults that can't swim, when I ask them why they usually say fear my mom or dad forced us in the water and they balked and never went back. I have a lady that does volunteer work for me who can't swim. I have been working with her for 3 years she has finally agreed to some lessons. I will take her to a friends pool that is very shallow and warm and begin just as if she were 4 or 5 years old. It doesn't come natural to many people. Be gentle with your kids when teaching them to swim it will pay off and they will be water lovers the rest of their lives. Last edited on 03:06 am by CARLA Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up worn out screaming what a ride.. |
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