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Category: Water Safety

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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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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Swimkids Staff

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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