From around 18 months of age children will love to explore the water by diving to the bottom and picking up rings. This activity is great for your child’s spatial awareness and hand-eye coordination. If your child does not have good breath control or is not totally comfortable with free-floating and independent swimming do not […]
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.
How Long Will it Take for my Child to Learn Swimming?
The number one question we receive online and at administration at our swim school is: How long will it take for my child to learn swimming? Every child is different and therefore it is impossible to give an exact answer to this question. But the good news is that practice and exposure are the keys […]
Swimming For Kids Who Don’t Like It
We often get calls for help – mainly from parents who report that their children don’t like swimming lessons. This could be for a number of reasons, including fear of the water, a scare in the pool or another water environment, lack of early exposure to the water, developmental stages or personality. It’s important that […]
Patience & The Learn To Swim Process
Swimming lessons are a great investment and it’s so important for every child to undergo the learn to swim process. Not only are you providing your children with a skill for life, you are giving them an advantage in the areas of social, emotional, physical and intellectual development. A four-year study conducted by Griffith University […]
Bath Time & Baby Swimming Lessons
During early bath time interactions, parents should focus on becoming relaxed handling their baby. These early experiences are baby swimming lessons. The easiest way to handle your baby is sharing a bath together. This is the perfect bonding experience. Practise moving your baby by rolling and spinning. When you do this make sure you leave […]
Important Swimming Tips For Parent Teachers
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 […]
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 know no fear of the water. Newborn swimming lessons start in the bathtub. Here we introduce baby to water in a loving, relaxed and controlled environment. These bath time swimming lessons present the perfect […]
Teaching An Infant Swimming
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. Infant […]
How To Teach Your Baby To Swim
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 extremely important and conducive to your child’s learning, progression and development in the water, as well as to his/hers actual learn to swim lesson. As swimming teachers, we know that sometimes the hardest child to teach any skill or activity to may indeed be your own. […]