When you’re looking for ways to help your little ones get comfortable and engaged in the water, think about pool toys. But also remember that ensuring that your children are safe with pool toys requires that you follow some pool toys rules. Check Your Toys Before Your Kids Use Them Lots of things can happen…
At Little Otter, we love to answer parents’ questions and help you understand our processes. Some of the most common questions we get are about how quickly a child can progress through swim lesson levels, how long it will take for them to learn how to swim, and what makes our curriculum different from other…
It’s important to laugh and there are some funny swim and water-related jokes to help us do that. 1. What word looks the same backward and upside down? Swims 2. Why did the teacher jump into the water? She wanted to test it! 3. How do swimmers clean themselves? They wash up on shore! 4….
There are a couple of ways to help you little swimmers prevent cramps while swimming. 1. Warming up muscles. 2. Providing a calm environment. These sound like pretty simple things to do – or to help your kids do. But let’s dig a little deeper just for fun. Warming up muscles. You may think that…
What is one of the first thing kids want to do after they’ve learned to swim? Most kids want to learn to dive! They see older kids and adults dive. They see athletes in the Olympics do amazing dives. So they want to try it themselves. How can we create safe diving spaces and teach them…
Swimming is not instinctual, (Instinctual is something we do that is unlearned or comes naturally). So if a person who doesn’t know how to swim were to fall into deep water, they may not be able to use inherently natural skills to float until help arrived or make their way haphazardly to safety. Without help,…
Little Otter Swim School is a dedicated team of aquatic professionals who share a love and passion for teaching children of all ages to swim. Armed with years of experience and a caring, compassionate approach to teaching swimming lessons, Little Otter Swim School offers year-round swimming lessons that focus on fun, safety, parent/child bonding and…
Does your developing swimmer have an enormous appetite after lessons? Here are some of the common sense and more scientific reasons why some of those moves your swimmer is learning can burn up energy and cause the appetite surge. If your swimmer can’t seem to resist the temptation of the vending machines that Little Otter…
Thinking back to my childhood and Halloween costumes inspires memories of hot nylon or plastic pull-on suits that vaguely resembled one of the limited character selections at K-Mart coupled with hard-to-breathe-through plastic masks held on by elastic strings that tangled in your hair. Or the sheet-with-two-eye-holes-cut-in-it ghost costume. At least my mom gave me a…
Children seem to be blessed with an infinite supply of joy and energy. It’s no small feat though for those little muscles to power your child around the pool. Physical activity, like swimming lessons, are a fun and valuable physical activity for toddlers and kids. Keep your little swimmers feeling their best and building their…
