The benefits of baby swimming

There is a wide range of benefits available to babies and children who are taught to swim in a gentle, gradual pace. Parents around the world have witnessed first-hand the many enhancements to mental, physical, emotional, developmental, and social well-being that result from teaching their children to swim.

 

BENEFITS:

• Emotional: Swimming allows babies to move independently before they are able to on dry land. Babies can learn trust and boost their confidence and self-esteem through their swimming lessons. Swimming can be very empowering for babies, since it offers them a new sense of freedom.
• Parent-child bonding: Parents can can commune faxe to face, skin to skin with their babies in the water. Their bond increases through the swimming lessons and parents can also exercise their patience, encouragement and kindness toward their babies. They will also learn about their growing personality, sense of humor, and how they approach new situations.
• Social: Swimming lessons in a group alongside with other like-minded parents will reap the social benefits - babies learn from each otherby observing and mimicking them, and olso enjoy their company. Children begin to look forward to interacting with each other, learning to take turns, to share, and to try new skills.
• Physical: Swimming liberates babies from a comparatively static life, and allows them to exercise muscles that would not use yet. For older babies, swimming complete their growing repertoir of land-based skills. Because both sides of the body are involved, and therefore both lobes of the brain, swimming increases coordination, motor development, and balance. Parents also see better sleep patterns after swimming. Furthermore, swimming bring to children all the fitness benefits that brings to adults - an increase in strength, muscle tone, endurance, and lung capacity.
• Personal safety: With time, practice, and development, children can acquire the necessary swimming safety skills to aid them in the event of a water emergency. A child who has done swimming lessons and has practiced safety skills will not panic, but will implement the techniques he has learned. Note, that no child should be considered "drownproof"; and parents should always be vigilant when their child is in the water.