According to trainers and professionals, it is necessary to start learning to swim a child from the age of 2-3 weeks old. In this case, there are special methods that allow learning to swim such crumbs.
The fact is that any newborn child is familiar with the water environment, since the entire pregnancy he spends in the amniotic fluid . In this case, the child will not have the fear of water, and teach him to swim - will not be difficult.
Parents who did not teach their child to swim at an early age are ready to help in the pre-school establishment, a kindergarten. Today there are many kindergartens in which there is a small pool. At the same time, classes with children are conducted by competent instructors.
How to teach swimming by yourself?
However, there are cases when the child is already going to go to school, and still can not swim. Then the parents ask themselves the question: "How to teach a child to swim, and what ways of learning to use it?".
Typically, it is best to conduct initial swimming training in the pool, under the supervision of an instructor, or in the summer in open water. To begin with, it is necessary to perform a set of simple exercises when teaching swimming, which will help the child to feel the water.
- Exercise asterisk. With his help, the child will learn to hold his breath and stay afloat. To perform it, you need to collect as much air as possible and lie down on the water, face down. At the same time, hands and feet are diluted to the sides, which will contribute to better buoyancy.
- The same exercise is repeated and lying on the back. In this case, the mouth and nose are not submerged in water, and the child can breathe with small delays.
- "Float". This exercise is performed to develop a child's sense of balance in the water. For this, he presses his legs, bringing them to his stomach and clasps his hands, gaining more air at the same time.
These and other exercises are usually used for swimming training in swimming pools , under the supervision of experienced instructors. However, in their implementation there is nothing difficult, so you can deal with the child and yourself.
The main problem faced by parents in the learning process is the fear of water in the baby. After it has been overcome, the child learns to swim instantly, that is, in 2-4 classes he already knows how to swim lying on his back.
Thus, it is possible to teach the child to swim well independently. Most importantly, the child was himself interested in this and was not afraid of water.