Baby Swimming - America's Kids In Motion
Baby Swimming
Water Smart Babies
The purpose of the Parent and Child swimming program is to expose and enhance early childhood development skills while teaching life-saving swimming skills. The two go hand in hand! Our developmental skills provide your child the opportunity to grow and learn at an age appropriate pace. We provide classes for these skills to be either introduced or mastered. Our professional infant/toddler coaches will guide you and your child throughout the class as well as provide you with activities and information to integrate these fundamental lifelong skills at home.
Babies need to participate in baby swimming to not only help keep them safe but to also to help shape their character, physical, social and mental development! Did you know that swimming as an infant will actually make your child a better learner? Movement is the key to learning for every child. A child cannot learn without motor stimulation. Movement and experience help the infant gather information. Sensory information from the environment comes by way of the child’s skin, nose, eyes, ears, taste buds and nerve receptors. Your child can move easily in the water with the aid of buoyancy and without the force of gravity therefore revealing the hidden power of movement and its implication in physical, emotional, social and cognitive development. Baby swim classes supply the child with brain priming movement opportunities so he/she will be ready for reading, language and reasoning skills. If a child’s experiences skip the sensory/motor levels, then gaps will appear in development and learning will be more difficult. General goals are to offer repeated exploration experiences encouraging the building of neural pathways which lead to a child’s higher level of brain development while laying the foundation for swimming skills.
The child has an adult (parent or other) in the water with him/her at all times. These classes include an introduction to water safety and primary water skills including back floats, submersions, rollover breathing in a fun family environment.
All swimmers under the age of 3 years old are required to wear a tight fitting reusable cloth swim diaper. We will provide you one with your first registration.
4 weeks – 5 month olds – Water Smart Infants
Being in the water with your little one is an amazing and rewarding experience. Let us show you what they are capable of. The infant has anparent/adult in the water with him/her at all times.
Equipment needed: Snug fitting cloth reusable swim diaper
All swimmers under the age of 3 years old are required to wear a tight fitting reusable cloth swim diaper. We will provide you one with your first registration.
Water Smart Babies – Level 1 Angelfish
Level 1 Angelfish is where your child learns water familiarization, introduction to back floating and short submersions. These babies are learning to love the water! The Infant has an adult in the water with them at all times. Swimmers advance to the Water Smart Baby Level 2 Starfish class after mastering short submersions.
Equipment needed: Snug fitting cloth reusable swim diaper
Water Smart Babies – Level 2 Starfish
Level 2 Starfish is where your child learns assisted front and back floating, kicking, submersions, safety skills and swimming body position. These babies are getting very comfortable in the water! The Infant has an adult in the water with them at all times. Swimmers advance to the Water Smart Baby Level 3 Clownfish class after mastering submersions, as well as glides to and from the wall.
Equipment needed: Snug fitting cloth reusable swim diaper, goggles encouraged
Water Smart Babies – Level 3 Clownfish
Level 3 Clownfish is where your child learns independent front and back floats, breath control, propulsive kicking, and independence. These babies are independently moving in the water! The Infant has an adult in the water with them at all times. Swimmers advance to the Water Smart Baby Level 4 Goldfish class after mastering independent back floating and propulsive kicking.
Equipment needed: Snug fitting cloth reusable swim diaper, goggles
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