One of the goals that parents strive for is to help their kids become independent. And since many attempt things with no fear, it’s a wise choice to make sure they are safe.
Swimming can help accomplish this!
In swimming lessons, children improve their motor skills and coordination and learn water safety. And learning these things helps them to be more independent and safe.
This can start early too! By the age of 2, kids can experience swimming and be safe in doing it with proper adult supervision. They learn that they can navigate in the water on their own. They can do skills and play independently and this helps them to expand their independence outside of the water as well.
Since swimming improves coordination and motor skills, swimming kids are making developmental strides early on – usually ahead of their non-swimming peers.
Kids learn breath control and paced breathing that strengthens their respiratory system. Better respiration affects almost everything from energy levels and stamina to efficient oxygen delivery across the entire body (which supports healthy growth).
Kids begin to learn rules in swimming lessons: rules that keep them safe around the pool and in it, rules that help them to be aware of what others are doing and rules that make sure they don’t put themselves or someone else at risk.
Kids gain self-confidence from learning to swim. Mastery of skills is a tremendous confidence builder. As tiny ones learn to float, to make swim stroke motions with their arms and to kick their feet and finally to feel their bodies cut through the water, their belief in their own capabilities soars!
All of these improvements transfer over to other activities and situations and give kids a head start on growing into a more mature child.
You could even say that swimming isn’t just a skill being mastered – it’s an outlook on life that kids carry with them from the moment they learn and beyond.
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