Swimming lessons are a great way to bond with your baby. As a parent you can enjoy being in the water while watching and guiding them in their swimming development. Each individual skill and water safety drill your child learns and practices in the swimming pool is a building block […]
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.
Floating Tips for Babies – Teaching Tips
Floating is the most important skill in the Learn to Swim process. Floating is the basis of all Learn to Swim skills and gives baby the opportunity to feel their own buoyancy. Once baby feels that fun floating sensation, and that feeling of weightlessness, they will become relaxed and at […]
The Importance of Grips – Teaching Tips
Babies are born with a natural grasp reflex. They grasp and hold on tight to fingers, toys, hair and clothing. By maintaining the grasp reflex and encouraging a strong grip during the swimming lesson, we build strength and independence. We also teach baby to support their own body weight in […]
My Child is Misbehaving at Swimming
You’re at your weekly swimming lesson and “Lachlan” is misbehaving at swimming once again. You’ve given him the warning speech before the lesson started but once again it’s gone in one ear and out the other. He’s bobbing underwater while the teacher is talking and he’s distracting the other children […]
Family Holidays and Swimming – Holiday Tips
I recently went on a family holiday for almost a month. Nearly all the places we stayed in had pool or were close to somewhere we could swim. We must have had at least 30 swims while we were away and both my girls Evie 6 and Harper almost 3 […]