Teaching children swimming is one of the important aspects that will allow your crumb to adapt more easily to ordinary life, be healthier, stronger and more clever than your peers. You can begin swimming training at any age, from the earliest childhood.
Breastfeeding: training
All parents, who are advanced in matters of parenting, usually think about teaching newborns to swim. Early swimming, as it is called, should be coordinated with a pediatrician, who will observe your baby. There are some contraindications, like colds or poorly healed umbilical fossa. In other respects, there are few restrictions, and from the third week of life you can teach the child to swim.
If you think learning to swim kids is completely unnecessary, you are deeply mistaken. It has long been proven that "floating" crumbs develop much more actively: they are more likely to develop motor skills, coordination of movements, they are calmer, sleep better and eat more eagerly. However, they often outstrip their peers and in terms of intelligence.
Teaching swimming for infants is usually done initially at home. It is important to prepare a bath with water for body temperature and engage with the baby at least 2-3 times a week. During the intrauterine period, as is well known, the crumb develops in the aquatic environment, so now, when the baby still has an ancestral memory, it will calmly hold its breath and reflexively reproduce the movements necessary in this situation.
Sometimes hospitals have special swimming pools, where they teach swimming lessons for babies. Usually, it is enough to attend such courses with the child once every 1-2 weeks, memorize new movements, and practice them in the bathroom at home.
Usually at such an age, the teaching of children to swimming individually with the instructor is not carried out - the main support and support is one of the parents. And now, since the age of five, you can easily hire a child for an individual coach, which will help your child master such swimming styles as breaststroke and crochet.
Program for teaching children to swim
If you want to give a chance to your child to become a professional swimmer, pay attention to the courses and sections of the training of swimming preschoolers. Already from the age of 5-6, the kid can visit the section where he will be taught to swim by a professional - in this case your baby will not learn primitive swimming "dog-like", but will immediately master the basic styles - crochet and breaststroke.
In addition, if it turns out that your baby has certain abilities, then from such a section he will be able to go first to school competitions, then - to city, regional competitions and so on.
Self-instruction in swimming for children in the pool
If your baby has already reached the age of five, you can practice the methods of teaching children swimming independently. Up to this age, the baby should not be taught - let the pool be just a pleasant entertainment with splashes and laughter, otherwise you can forever push the crumb from the love of water.
You can try the most primitive exercises:
- holding the crumb over the belly under the water, ask to perform the characteristic movements first with your hands, then with your legs, then - all together;
- Teach your baby to hold his breath and dive under water;
- after mastering these exercises, teach him to stay on the water, and then go on to the techniques of swimming.
If you yourself do not know how to swim too well, it is better to provide training to professionals - this can depend on the safety of your baby's life!