Teaching a toddler swimming

[Autumn]

Thank you Linzy!
That's really awesome about the recent success with his swimming!

Are you feeling like you're ready to have this baby?? And a second child at that?? 
Are you planning to use a crawling track or teach your newborn to swim?
Babies are  just so much fun, aren't they!

Autumn

[mom2paul]

I took my son who is 2 1/2 to our local YMCA mommy and me class.  The YMCA doesn't start what I would consider actual swimming lessons until the age of 3.  I had my son in the class to help him with his fear of water which he developed earlier in the summer.  He didn't complete the classes because it broke my heart to seeing him cry and scream every time we went to class and throughout the entire class.  Bathing time for a month and a half was a challenge.  Now he does great in the bath tub and thinks every time he uses our toilet it is bath time.  He will play in the water in the birdbath outside and in the sprinkler. 

I plan on next summer teaching him myself, because I feel parents are the best teachers.

momma2paul

[Autumn]

Momm2Paul,

I definately feel that parents ARE the best teachers for their children too!

Autumn

[bella]

i HAVE THE INSTITUES TEACH YOUR BABY TO SWIM AND I USED IT WITH MY HURT CHILD .  when i got tina i found a wonderful waterbaby dvd that gives you classes step by step from infancy . it is wonderful and give you confidence when you watch other parents with the instructor and tiny babies learning to swim back float going under .
since both tina 3 and matthew 11 months were home birth , they were in the bathtub soon after birth going under . the earlier you start the easier remember babies were in water in utero , my babies always swam underwater , and by four or five months they would swim between me and dad underwater for few seconds than one of us will move further , and now tina can swim across the pool 4.5 meters coming up half way to breath .
i think what she is doing is natural , what i like to teach her is to swim head out of the water , but from my experience we live by the oceans it is a lot better and it is the first step for kids to learn to dive under before learning to float on the surface . i really recommend this dvd , it is better than any book .

my 16 years old severely hurt daughter who cannot move is able to dive under and swim across the pool .

viv

[Autumn]

Hi Viv,
Are you referring to the "How to teach your baby to swim" book by the Domans? That is  really wonderful how your hurt daughter can swim so well!     Great work!!

XOXO Autumn

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