What Is The Best Age To Learn To Swim?

What is the best age to learn to swim?  I think the better question is, when is the best time to learn to swim? Did you know that you should get you r infant used to having water on the face from the first bath? Use a clean washcloth to drip a few drops of water on the baby’s face and increase it to more drops and a stream of water. If did not do that with your baby and now your child doesn’t like water on the face, you can still start, it will be harder but you just have to make it fun! Watch videos on my youtube channel.

Parents say, “My child was swimming last year!”  If you don’t take your child to swim during the rest of the year, your child will forget what they have learned!  Learn to swim and keep on practicing during the year even filling up the tub and putting toys on the bottom. Even with goggles!  Find an indoor pool and go at least one a month and you be your child’s teacher! Many people wait for the Summer months to swim.  What about the rest of the year? Don’t let your child forget!

I think that swimming starts from the baby’s first bath!  I bought my baby grandson a swim neck ring and he loved it.  I still held him a little but he had so much more freedom of movement than when you are holding him.  Here we are in a Jacuzzi, perfect for babies learning to swim!  Have you ever heard of the swim neck ring?  It is not very popular in the USA.

This article and video from the BBC describe that any age is a good time to learn to swim and that there are so many benefits to learning how to swim!  20% of adults don’t know how to swim.  The article shows babies learning to swim and some seniors learning to swim and be safe in the water.  The best time to learn to swim is as young as possible!!

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