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Learning to Swim - from a 7 year Swim Teacher
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items I have been teaching swim lessons to ages 0-100 for seven years. My biggest focus for kids has always been teaching them how to get out of a pool or bodies of water in an emergency along with teaching them how to swim. These are some of the activitie...
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These are all of the pool toys and equipment that can be used to strengthen your kids swim muscles and help them prepare for swim lessons!
Dive toys are a perfect way to teach kids to put their faces all the way underwater! I use them for ALL ages of kids. For the littles, I put them in the shallow end, where they can stand and make them pick them up. If I can safely increase how far th...
Best Swimming Pool Dive Toys
Kickboards are awesome for all ages as it helps build kids leg muscles to help them swim! I love them for the littles because it gets their legs strong enough to keep their bodies balanced when they first start to swim, and they get a feel for how it...
Kickboards | Amazon.com
These are much better for kids but you would have to keep your eyes on them. This teaches them how it feels when you swim. It also allows them to learn to kick and do their strokes properly.
Swim Float Kids Back Belt: Pool Bubble Water ...
A hula-hoop is a great tool when teaching kids how to swim because it teaches them how to use their bodies. You can put these underwater and have them swim through it, which teaches them how to hold their breathe for periods of time and swim under wa...
Hula Hoops in Sports Toys - Walmart.com
These are much better for kids swimming in chlorine because they teach them to hold their breathe and blow water out as they swim. Please do not let your kids rely on goggles completely, make them swim without them sometimes so you know they CAN.
Goggles in Swimming - Walmart.com
Kids swim shirts are the perfect solution if you do not want them getting sunburnt! This prevents them from getting sunburnt and is also not as revealing as other swimsuit options. These are also perfect for swim lessons because they keep they kids w...
Kids' Swimsuits
Pool noodles can be used for so many things besides just fun. The kids can hold these and then kick across the pool, dive down holding them, have to swim around them as obstacles etc.
Pool Noodles in Floats and Pool Games - Walmart
Getting your kids to play in the pool with you and watching them in general is good for them. This teaches them how to move around in the pool safely without thinking about it! They get to learn and have fun!
Pool Toys
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These are all of the toys and products marketed to kids swimming that hinder their ability to swim and make it harder for them to learn to swim the correct way. Please do not buy these.
These kinds of floaties for kids are TERRIBLE for them. I hate these because they make it harder to teach kids to lay on their stomaches or their backs to swim. It also teaches them the WRONG way to kick and move their arms. You are not helping your ...
Swim Floaties
Please do not get the ones that cover your child's nose, this does not teach them to hold their breathe or blow through their nose. In a situation without goggles, they may take in water and also have trouble swimming. Please just avoid the problem a...
Kids / Swimming Goggles / Swimming Equipment
Please do not use extremely oily sunscreen or lotion on your kids right before they swim or go to lessons. This makes your kid extremely oily and hard to grab in an emergency situation.
18 Best Sunscreens for Oily Skin (Tested & Reviewed in ...
Please do not just get your kid a lifevest and throw them in a public pool. This does not teach your kids how to swim and if you do not put one on the fits correctly, it could actually sit the childs head to low and in the water. Life vests are great...
Kids' PFDs - Mustang Survival