SWIMkids USA Family Swim School

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Lana Whitehead, founder of SWIMkids USA, teaches kids how to swim
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Why SWIMkids USA Began

SWIMkids USA has won the Healthcare Leadership award for community impact given by AZ Business magazine. The award reflects the hard work of staff and the passion and direction of Lana Whitehead who started her business back in 1971.We thought this was a great opportunity to share Lana’s story of

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swim lessons for drowning prevention
Swimkids Staff

The Day They Went Under

You would have thought I was opening a treasure chest. My 3-year-old daughter, Kelsey and 4-year-old son, Robbie watched as I pulled clothes out of our suitcase. On top was Kelsey’s delicate lavender dress with its satin sash. Then, Robbie’s nice slacks and his little-boy-sized red tie. Tucked under them

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how kids swim lessons benefit the brain
Swimkids Staff

Swimming’s Amazing Benefits to the Brain

Your water workout gives your body and heart all the benefit of an aerobic workout without impact on the joints. But another amazing perk of swimming is that it’s great for your brain! President of SWIMkids USA Lana Whitehead holds degrees in exercise physiology, special education and she’s a member

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teaching baby to swim for drowning prevention
Swimkids Staff

May is National Drowning Prevention Month

Swim lessons save lives. Our parents have shared stories of seeing their child use a skill they learned in class to help themselves when they got in an uncertain situation in the water. We are thrilled to help parents in their effort to make their child safer around water! No

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Three kids learning taking swim lessons
Swimkids Staff

Swim Lessons Save Lives! (And Other Facts)

How do you think it sounds when someone is drowning? That drowning victims make a lot of noise is only one of the false-assumptions around water safety, which keep drowning tragedies too often at the top of the daily news. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention –  in the

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Olympic Dreams Begin Here!

The same night as the Parade of Nations for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Rio’s Maracanã Stadium was going on, a second Parade of Nations was happening in Mesa at SWIMkids USA. The Rio parade was awe-inspiring as it featured top athletes from across the globe marching together

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Keep Kids Swimming – for Smarts!

There are surprising benefits to year-round swim lessons.  As the weather turns cooler and summer ends, keep ’em swimming!  It can make their learning easier. Research out of Australia (https://app.griffith.edu.au/news/2013/08/13/swimming-a-smart-move-for-children/shows) proves that children, who were taught to swim by 5 years, had statistically higher IQs. Turns out, some of what

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5 Things to Consider When Looking for a Swim Class

The American Academy of Pediatrics is putting a spotlight on baby swim lessons by recommending swim lessons begin at age 1. Their previous guidelines recommended the starting age as 4 years old. The new guidelines also recommend that all children learn to swim to keep them safer around water. “At

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Combating Fear With Trust

Across the nation, there are two popular approaches to teaching infants to swim. The first is a fight-or-flight method, and the second is a trusting, nurturing environment. We’re pretty sure you know where we fall. Did you know triggering a fight or flight mindset hinders brain development? That’s the last

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Baby CPR – These Three Things May Surprise You!

When Amanda Acuna’s daughter was a baby, one minute her girl was eating Cheerios in her high chair and quick-as-a-wink, the next minute, her daughter was choking. “I thankfully was able to quickly draw on specific choking management strategies I had learned in a CPR class,” Acuna recalls. “I was

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