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At What Age Should Your Child
Be Learning to Swim? - part 2
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The second child finally put his head under the water at
the end of the third lesson, and though he did learn to immerse his face
without making terrible faces and wiping the water off as vigorously as if it
were poison, at the end of his fourth lesson he had not yet learned to float,
nor get more than one of his feet off the bottom of the pool. He was enthusiastic about coming for lessons and each day the teacher
thought, Surely, he will get afloat today. He loved to play,
laugh, splash, tease the teacher, jump from the deck into the
shallow end, and would often glide a little without knowing
that he was doing so. But during the first stages the matter
of learning to swim took more perseverance than he could
muster, and he found it something of a nuisance. He was
having enough fun, he thought, without actually learning to
swim.
The third child sat on the side of the pool watching what the others were doing
and dangling his feet as far as his knees. He cringed at splashing, though he
would occasionally walk back and forth in the water along the railing (at the
teacher's invitation). He always faced the side, with his back to the expanse of
water between him and the opposite side. The teacher would occasionally pry his
hands loose from the railing and take him for a little ride in a glide position. He would
let her pull him through the water, his head way back, his
chin way up. No water on his face! And he never stopped
pleading: "Don't take me out too deep, don't take me out too
deep"; and she never convinced him that she would not, even
though she stopped to let him feel the bottom with his own
two feet, his head well above water level.
During the early lessons, the fourth child never even got
into the pool. He would ease over to the pool, lie down on his
stomach, and feel the water with his fingers when he was sure
no one was watching him.
In the process of describing the beginning problems of
teaching small children to swim, you may have the impression
that the majority of children do not like the water. This is
not true. But the fact remains that some children are fearful,
and they need to be given careful attention. This description
just given of the four children is not meant to imply that these
children will not learn to swim. It is even possible that the
fourth child could become an Olympic champion. But not if he's
pushed, forced, or rushed at the age of four. The point of the description is
that not many children under four willingly learn to swim. Lucky you, if you have a group made
up of children like the first one. Things will go swimmingly!
It is hard to predict what a child's abilities will be in the
water, but the parent is faced there with some of the same
problems with his child as he is on dry land, and he will see
a relationship between the two, if he is perceptive of the child's
feelings. If he clings to you, is shy with strangers and baby
sitters, afraid of the dark, cautious about experimenting with
new activities (such as trying out roller skates), or has any
one of a number of fears small children have, he will not shed
all of these at once and take a deep dive (or even a small
jump) into a large body of water.
Related terms include adult swimming lessons and teaching swimming.
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