Im getting a big pool and my kids cant swim what are some things to get that will help them learn?

Question

they have took one swimming lesson just to not be scared of the water any input u can give me is good ty

Answer 1

I taught 4 of my 5 kids in a lake. We used car inner tubes at first. The all round bouyancy gave them confidence. As they grew we moved to 'noodles' then to a kick board. By age 5 they were swimming quite well.
Eldest now competes in swimming comps. Coached but no 'official' swimming lessons.

Always supervise, and encourage, and they will be ducks in water in no time )

Answer 2

I agree with Kristy. You never really understand how dangerous water is until you start getting your certifications. Then you learn how many people drown every year. Also, since your kids have taken one lesson to not be scared then you really need to watch them a lot closer. Most drownings occur when parents are more than a step away from there kids. I'm certainly not knocking your teaching ability. But I'm sure it would be fun for the kids to learn to swim from someone who has there certifications.
Call your local YMCA, Red Cross, Community Center or ask around if someone can come to your house, your pool, and do private lessons. There are a lot of possibilities!
Good Luck!

Answer 3

never leave them alone
if there young get a fence pool and put a lock and have the key with you or in a good hiding place where you know they won't find it.
when your at home teach them how to swim, if you don't know either than let them join a local swim team. they teach them how to swim 4 different ways.

i live in florida and am 15 now and water have always been a big factor in my life because its all around me. so at a young age i knew how to float but not swim and if i wanted to go to the deep end i had tricks and methods, like grab the edge of the pool and if i slipped and let go stay calm and hold your breathe and go all the way down and use your legs to push hard on the pool floor to go up and breathe, and i did it over and over again to go to the shallow part of the pool where am safe.

but joining a swim team helps alot.

Answer 4

Get them professional lessons and watch them like a hawk. You could get private lessons at your own pool or check your local YMCA or swim club. Never ever leave your children alone at or near the pool!

Having a pool and children who cannot swim is a huge risk!!! Check out the statistics from the CDC:

- In 2004, of all children 1-4 years old who died, 26% died from drowning (CDC 2006). Although drowning rates have slowly declined (Branche 1999), fatal drowning remains the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children ages 1 to 14 years (CDC 2005).

- Among children ages 1 to 4 years, most drownings occur in residential swimming pools (Brenner et al. 2001). Most young children who drowned in pools were last seen in the home, had been out of sight less than five minutes, and were in the care of one or both parents at the time (Present 1987).

****PREVENTION****
-Learn to swim. Be aware that the American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend swimming classes as the primary means of drowning prevention for children younger than 4 years of age. Constant vigilant supervision and barriers such as pool fencing are still necessary even when children have completed classes.

-With young children, do not use air-filled or foam toys, such as “water wings”, “noodles”, or inner-tubes, in place of life jackets (personal flotation devices). These toys are not designed to keep swimmers safe.

-- If you have a swimming pool at your home:
- Install a four-sided, isolation pool fence that totally separates the house and yard from the pool area. The fence should be at least 4 feet high and should completely separate the pool from the house and play area of the yard. Use self closing and self latching gates that open outward, and have latches that are out of a child’s reach. Consider additional barriers such as automatic door locks or alarms to prevent or notify you regarding access to the yard or pool.
- Toys should be removed from the pool immediately after use. Floats, balls and other toys might encourage children to enter the pool area or lean over the pool and potentially fall in.

Answer 5

why are they taken care of like that? because of the fact they in all possibility understand which you are going to have a competent, worthwhile interest once you're older, and could easily bypass someplace in existence while the dumbass little ones who make exciting of you will finally end up having a shitty interest. do not enable it get to you. what do human beings in intense college rely besides? you will in no way see them lower back, and their comments do not rely. (im assuming its intense college)

Answer 6

I don't know what you can get but one thing my mom taught me was to float. If you can float on your back, you can swim. I taught my grandson to float and told him if he ever feels tired from swimming, he should stop and just float until he gets energy to start swimming again.

Answer 7

Get Tubes, and those long skinny foam poles. The foam poles are probably better because when your child uses it, he/she will still be able to swim on their own and have the foam pole as protection. Great way to learn.

Answer 8

A good teacher!!!