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Your Child Can Swim: Helpful Hints
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Anonymous user Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:53:32 PDT
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0 responses 0 comments 1. All children can swim.
2. Until about the age of 4, all children will swim submerged and not on top of the water.
3. Infants and small children naturally and instinctively open their eyes and close their nose and mouth when they are below the surface.
4. All children love their bath water and this love extends naturally to swimming water.
5. Fear of water is contagious and is transferred from adults to children.
6. To a small child all water is deep since they cannot touch the bottom.
7. There is not a DEEP END TO A SWIMMING POOL! Everyone swims on the surface. There is an end with the steps and an end with a diving board.
8. All children can hold their breath for at least one minute. Don't express alarm when they are under for 30 seconds.
9. If a child goes under the water, don't panic and grab him/her hastily, that will only develop anxiety. Very gently and calmly pull him/her out and tell him/her what fun it was.
10. When you are with your child in the water speak in a calm, controlled voice.
11. If your child is prone to earaches, a drop of peroxide or rubbing alcohol in each ear after swimming will help alleviate the problem.

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