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Yesterday Today featured babies as young as 6 months old learning to swim.
Water survival safety is important but how young is too young to start your child in swim school?! Should kids swim before they can speak? Watch the video and decide.
- Babies can be taught to swim but the commitment is huge and requires a lot of work.
- To learn a swim behavior, lessons must be repeated every day, over and over again.
- If the routine is stopped, there is no guarantee the baby will remember how to swim.
- No baby can be deemed water 'safe' - water safety is a mindset and comes from maturity and knowing how to react to different water-related situations.
- A child should start swim lessons when he or she shows interest.
- Don't assume any child is water safe before age 8 (no matter the number of classes taken).
For more information on Lisa Cook and her water safety methods, visit KidSwim.
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I personally think this is disturbing
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Personally, I would never do this to my child. Letting him sink underwater doesn’t sound like a good time to me.
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While I agree that these images are troubling to me as a parent. I was a water baby myself. I honestly don’t remember learning to swim. It’s something I could always do just like not rememebering to learn to speak or walk or breathe. I learned it so early, that it always seemed completely natural.
To me it’s a matter of technique. We took our four year old for lessons around 13 mos. At no point did my wife or I ever let go of him in the pool.
Honestly, it was pretty humorous. Being firecely determined as my son is, he was perfectly content to play/splash fuss in the water as long as it was on his terms. Which was fine with us. As soon as you tried to apply any structure, like trying to make him kick or something, he was totally uninterested and would rebel.
We never forced it on him though. We just wanted him to be comfortable around water and not be afraid of it.
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Really stupid!
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My son is 2 and is in swim lessons now and I wish I would have started him when he was tiny. In his class we are learning to teach them to go under, get to the side of the pool, climb out of the pool and other safety moves. I think more people should take the time and teach their babies to swim. It’s one less child at risk to drowing.
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Why is it disturbing? A baby is not going to understand the words “hold your breath” so, they have to learn somehow. Also, there’s an instructor right there!!!! I am 32 years old, have two kids under the age of 3. I have no problem with this lesson in a controlled professional environment.
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