Ensuring children’s health and safety is the responsibility of parents and teachers when teaching children to swim. For example, exposing children to bathtubs, swimming pools, spas, creeks, rivers, dams, fish ponds or any open water poses many dangers. In addition, drowning is the greatest cause of accidental death in children […]
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The Laurie Lawrence Method of Learning the Butterfly
Australian Olympic coach Laurie Lawrence, has a lifelong love for swimming. This passion came from an unfortunate occurrence: When he was a boy, he had bronchiectasis, which causes enlargement of parts of the lung’s airways, infection and a breakdown of the airways. As a result of this illness, Lawrence had […]
December is Check your Pool Gate Month
Recent research has revealed 57% of pool owners are not checking the safety of their pool gate and fence adequately enough. In addition, 42% of pool owners checked their gate only once a year, 11% every few years and 4% had never checked it. This is according to a survey of […]
How to Teach Water Safety for Over 4’s
When it comes to water safety for over 4’s, there are a lot of things you need to think about and consider. Of course you want your children to have fun in the pool without any worries, but you also need them to know how they can stay safe when […]
The Importance of Fun, not Force, in Quality Swimming Lessons
Swimming lessons should be a positive experience for both parent and child. The water provides a unique environment that allows special parent and child bonding. Here, parents and their children can enjoy one on one time together with no interruptions. There are so many social, emotional and physical positives to […]