Environment Impacts Your Child’s Swimming Classes
By kathrynv on Apr 17, 2009 in Sports
Imagine that you have signed your child up for swimming classes in Miami. You’re really excited about these swimming lessons in Miami because you want your child to learn how to swim quickly so that you can spend a lot of time together at Miami’s terrific beaches. Unfortunately, a few months into the classes, your child still hasn’t learned how to swim. What happened?
The answer is probably that the environment for these classes isn’t the one that’s best for your child. Children learn in different ways and for some the right way to learn to swim is not through swimming classes. This is because swimming classes have a lot of distractions due to the child’s peers, the parents and even friends of the instructor all standing around the pool.
This doesn’t mean that swimming lessons are a bad idea. It just means that you may need to look for smaller classes or private swim instruction for your child if he or she hasn’t started to learn to swim after a couple of months in classes. It’s better to adapt the situation to meet your child’s needs in this case than to try to get the child to learn in an environment that doesn’t work.
