Many parents around the world have taken up the challenge to teach their own children to swim. This could be for a number of reasons. E.g. The cost of lessons, limited access to swim schools, unsuitable programs for the family’s needs and even the behavioural or learning limitations of their child. While it can be […]
Resources & Baby Swimming Tips For Parents
These articles are invaluable resources for parents. They include baby swimming tips and educational tips and techniques we recommend on implementing towards your child's development.
Water Familiarisation in Newborn Swimming Lessons
Parents can teach baby to swim from birth. Newborn babies have been immersed in the womb for nine months and therefore have no fear of the water. Newborn swimming lessons and water familiarisation start in the bathtub. Here we introduce baby to water in a loving, relaxed and controlled environment. These bath time swimming lessons […]
Teaching An Infant Swimming – Teaching Tips
Teaching an infant swimming skills and many other age groups requires certain basic principles. These include; water familiarisation, breath control, submersion, free-floating, prolusion and breathing. It is important that these learn to swim principles are followed meticulously to maximise results. Trying to force or hurry the learn-to-swim process will result in poor swimming skills.When can […]
How To Teach Your Baby To Swim – Teaching Swim Skills
During the 8 to 12 month age group, your baby will start to become purposefully mobile. Common achievements include; moving from stomach to sitting position, efficient crawling, standing, taking first steps and even walking. This increased mobility will have a tremendous impact on how to teach your baby to swim. At this stage, we begin to […]
How to Teach Kids to Swim at Home
Time in the pool outside of swimming lessons is important in learning how to teach kids to swim at home. It is conducive to your child’s learning, progression and development in the water. It is also as important to his/her actual learn to swim lesson. As swimming teachers, we know that the hardest child to […]