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May 19, 2012 is “National Learn to Swim Day”. Learning to swim is very important to children. In everyday activities, it greatly expands the amount of fun places to go during the summer which is just about upon us. Knowing how to swim can save your life or a loved one’s life. According to the Red Cross, drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children ages 1 to 14 years old. Additionally, statistics show that children ages 1 to 4 drown most often in home swimming pools. These are some scary statistics to look at. Especially if you now take a stroll around you neighborhood and see how many of your neighbors have swimming pools. Sure they have fences, but we all know a group of kids will always find a way to get into trouble, so why not help them stay safe, too?
There are many ways to celebrate Learn to Swim Day, a few suggestions: take your kids to the local town pool and take a swimming class. Why not include older members of your family too? It takes a village, after all. Everyone should know how to swim, not only little kids. Let’s say your kids already know how to swim- how could you celebrate? Maybet a pool party where the kids have (safe) swimming pool fun with their friends and hone their swimming skills a bit more.
SwimWays, the creators of the SwimSteps swimming learning system are celebrating by holding an event at the Greenbrier Family YMCA in Chesapeake, VA from 1-3 p.m. The event will be the grand opening of the YMCA’s outdoor pool for the summer, open to members and non-members, and feature a water safety clinic for local families. If in the area, it sounds like a fun way to spend the day.
I want to find a fun parent/toddler program so I can get our daughter started with swimming 🙂
My baby turns 2, but we are doing a parent and tot swim class next month!
I made sure my kids had lessons.
Swimming is very important to children especially if all they want to do is be in the water.
Minta
This is very important. I see too many little lives lost to drowning down here yearly
My kids took lessons at an early age too. I wanted them to be able to swim before I allowed them to play in the neighbor’s pool all summer! It’s great exercise and I can read a book in the shade while I watch them. 🙂
my kids started swim team at 4 and 6. Now they can swim like fish and every summer we still do swim team. Awesome exercise and they love the team environment.
we need to have swim lessons for our tiny one