to learn how to swim
Most children love water and are fully in their element. It is even more important that they learn to swim early so they can move safely there. The required technique is taught by your child either in the swimming class or with the parents.
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Swimming lessons for children are available from various providers. In order for your child to really enjoy swimming, it's best to take a trial lesson before you enroll your child or just watch an hour. Because both you and your child need to feel comfortable in the course and especially with the swimming instructor.
swimming lessons
If you want to send your child to a swimming class, usually the local bathhouse is the first point of contact. Depending on the season swimming pools are offered in outdoor and indoor pools, which are usually offered by the local lifeguards. In larger cities there are also mostly clubs (for example, the German Lifesaving Society - DLRG) or private swimming instructors who offer appropriate courses. A good swimming class should meet the following criteria:
A swimming course should have a clear end goal. For swimming beginners, this is for example the "seahorse", the first swim badge.
Approximately 10 to 12 training sessions should be scheduled per course; the individual swimming lesson should take about 30 minutes.
Per group, the children should be about the same age, the group strength for non-swimmers should not exceed eight people.
A swimming instructor should be present throughout the course as a caregiver, which is especially important for smaller children.
The swimming instructor must be qualified and able to guide and guide the children, praise and encouragement are the preferred educational tools.
The swimming lesson is not just about learning to swim, but also the most important swimming rules have to be mediated.
The optimal age for a swimming class is five years. Smaller children are usually not strong enough to stay afloat and often still have problems with the motorization of swimming movements. The little ones learn breaststroke at the age of six at the earliest. Younger children can already learn how to crawl or backstroke, the so-called Wechselschlagschwimmarten.
Learn to swim with the parents
If you swim well and safely, are not afraid of the water and have the necessary patience and time, you can teach your child how to swim. During the swimming exercises, you must make sure that you bring your child to swimming in small steps and do not overtax him physically or mentally.
For starters, it helps your child to practice arm and leg movements separately. Here, a swimming board that is either held (the child is exercising the leg movements) or keeps your legs afloat will help your child practice the arm movements. As an aid, swimming belts can also be used here. These are equipped with Styrofoam blocks, which can be gradually removed.
Mostly the swimming lessons are easier: There are no authority issues with the parents, the swimming instructor has the right method of learning and a lot of experience and swimming lessons in the group are usually twice as fun for the children.
When can children safely swim?
About 20 practice hours are required until your child is swimming reasonably safely. However, this is just the first step to safety in the water. As with other skills, your child now has the technical tools, but he still lacks strength and experience. So it is still careful for parents, because even a child who can already swim, can get into dangerous situations: It floats too far out and the forces leave it or it gets in the water a spasm and can no longer stay afloat.
Therefore, you should continue to supervise your children and rehearse with them again and again.
very helpful, thanx
thx for the feedback
It's a shame how many children drown each year, just a little bit of swimming practice could be enough to prevent a disaster. Great post btw.
thx for this feedback... Yeah there nothing much to do.. take a look round about 20 Hours of learning lessons... + - So why most of parents dont take enough time for the kids...
We live in a TV and Console time go and shut up i hope i can reach someone with my stuff and maybe change a thing...
I only learned to swim at 15 years old, and dreaded water most of my life....
...I think I still hate it.
Cheers!
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Great work @hoschitrooper.. I can't teach my children because I don't know how to swim... But yeah your guidelines about sending them to a swimming center are really great... I gonna follow these guidelines when my children got to the age suitable for joining swimming classes.. God Bless You!!!
Great post. It's almost never too early to learn to swim. Both of my nephews were perfectly capable by age 3.
My father never learned to swim, in spite of being in the Navy in WWII. He insisted his children be comfortable in the water so we all took several seasons of swimming lessons. I didn't realize until I was an adult just how much of a PIA those lessons were for my parents. 5 children and 20 miles from the pool.
As a matter of pure fact, I loved it and still do.
Thanks for a terrific post!
I enjoyed your post and it made me start looking into swimming lessons for my kids. I also need to go a step further because I don't swim as well. My family loves waterparks but we need to be safe while we are there. Thank you!
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I don't even know how to swim to begin with and yes I am not a child anymore. But anyways, I love the post and it's good for a child to learn how to swim early. So, parents, take your child to a swim class early.
Nice post Hoschi! I learned to swim properly with about 10years... Much too late imho. But I learned it well, and loved to be in the water since I was a little kid ;)
just keep swimming just keep swimming just keep swimming swimmiming swimming
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