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At What Age Should Your Child
Be Learning to Swim? - part 3
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Probably such free-floating fears account to a larger extent for
children's reluctance to take to swimming than any actual incident attached to
water. But such incidents are not to be lost sight of, either. Perhaps the child
is fearful because he was pushed, or fell, into deep water and had a real
struggle— choked, gasped, and swallowed much water. If this ever happened to you, you know how real the terror can be. Do not
underestimate it. Or it may be that he wasn't frightened when
he was pulled out of the water, but that the excitement and
hysteria of the adults around him gave him reasons for his
fear. Perhaps there were times in his bassinette when he got
soap or water in his eyes, or a frightening experience may
have occurred in his bassinette that neither of you remembers, which created a fear that may remain in his subconscious
mind.
It is also interesting to note that a number of very aggressive children have a great fear of the water. Overly aggressive
children are often very scared children, and parents are surprised to see their very tough little boy shying away from
water.
It does not follow, however, that because your child has had a traumatic
experience in water, or because he has certain personality problems, he will not
be able to learn to swim. It means, simply, that you must take these factors
into consideration before and while you are teaching him to swim.
And oh, a word of warning. Do take these matters into consideration silently—without
such remarks as: "I'm scared to death
of water myself," or "I almost drowned once," or "I never
could learn to swim," or "I hate water on my face." These
sound innocent enough, but such confessions of fear reinforce
his own, and words like "drowned," "scared," etc., tend to
discourage a new swimmer.
It is understandable that parents are eager that their children learn to swim
because it's going to be a long hot summer, and swimming and summers just naturally go together.
Besides, parents in this generation are eager to give their
child every opportunity, and swimming is one of these—and
it wasn't in their generation. But unless you are a pool owner, or
are going to sea in a Chinese junk, or live next door to a large body of water,
you really should not care too much if your four-year-old learns to swim in two
weeks or in two summers. In short, it is important to recognize when children are
not ready to learn to swim. Whether you are doing the teaching or whether your child is being taught by someone else, do
not be firmly determined that your child become a swimmer
that very summer if he is only four years old. Or even five years
old. If your child enjoys the lessons and is making some progress, even though
he is not yet even afloat by the end of the summer, you should think of this
kind of water play as a necessary foundation for the next summer when you hope
he will get afloat. If your child does not enjoy learning even the very early
simplest skills, you may hear yourself starting to get cross with him because he
will not "co-operate." After you have given the lesson plan a fair try (three
lessons would be considered fair), and you meet with continued undue resistance, it might be wisest to say, "Let's play in the plastic
wading pool, turn on the sprinklers, fill the bathtub to the
brim, and have some fun in the water this summer. Maybe
next summer you'll want to learn to swim."
Related terms include swim stroke and swim school.
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