Children need to learn to swim for academic and social milestones, rather than just fitness, research suggests

With family budgets stretched ever tighter, swimming lessons can be one of the first expenses to be cut back—but with ...

I want you to love the water more than just learning to swim. Half a year after starting swimming lessons, a parent's perspective has changed.

Half a year has passed since we started swimming lessons.As I wrote in a previous article, my son still goes reluctantly every week.Among the children who started at the same time, some seem to enjoy ...
News-Medical.Net

Swimming lessons may boost children's learning and social development

With family budgets stretched ever-tighter, swimming lessons can be one of the first expenses to be cut back – but with ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

‘Swim lessons save lives’: Southern Nevada event teaches pool safety

A group of 5- and 6-year-olds used all their strength and skills to splash their beloved swim instructor, Cheryl Waites, as she laughed and teased the kids to splash harder. Waites was one of the ...
The Conversation

Why should my child take swimming lessons? And what do they need to know?

Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional death from injury worldwide. From July 2018 to June 2019, 276 people drowned across Australia – a 10% increase on the previous year. Among those ...

Willamalane has taught Springfield kids to swim for 63 years

Willamalane Park and Recreation and Springfield Public Schools get along swimmingly in this longtime partnership that teaches ...