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Originally Posted by Roselvr
The baby wasn't just thrown in the pool. They were doing swimming lessons. My grandson took lessons last year, lots of moms with babies/kids in the mommy and me class.
But did they have to 'throw' the baby, literally? What's wrong with just walking into the water carrying the child and lowering it into the water? Are the elements of surprise, confusion and terror supposed to be beneficial?
But did they have to 'throw' the baby, literally? What's wrong with just walking into the water carrying the child and lowering it into the water? Are the elements of surprise, confusion and terror supposed to be beneficial?
I've never seen a baby thrown in where my son went. When they're able to stand on their own, they actually jump in themselves. I'm talking barely toddlers that are standing and not walking. The kids and babies seem to love it
Baby swimming classes are widely available in Florida, given how many pools, lakes, canals, etc are all over the place.
One thing I will say is some people are taking the video somewhat out of context.
Infant classes are several weeks long and are structured to progress SLOWLY to allow the baby to learn. So it's not like "Hey this is lesson #1... Toss your baby in!"
After starting off from just teaching the baby to roll over and face up/float, you go through paddling, and then also falling in from progressively higher distances.
It usually starts with just a thin level pool float you slowly turn so the baby slides into the water, and progress up to the edge of the pool, and possibly higher.
The reason for this is to have the baby experience falling in to a pool or canal, which may have even higher ledges, and be able to react to that situation. Remember, this is a class for survival, so you have to try to simulate close to what the baby may experience
Last edited by TampaBull13; 07-19-2020 at 03:12 PM..
An 8 month old should not be in “swimming lessons.” So irresponsible.
I was born in a water-locked town on the north coast where it was essential and mandatory that every resident in the town must know how to swim and be aware of water survival tactics.
All babies were required to start water indoctrination and swimming lessons at 6 months of age and the lessons and water practise continued regularly scheduled once a week until students graduated from highschool. There was nothing irresponsible about it.
My kids all swam before they were 3. They actually learned to swim well in the middle of the Rochester NY winter. One was just out of diapers and the other 18 months older. It went very well. We hit a local municipal pool in the evenings in the height of winter. No one else was there. And the nice lady who oversaw the ladies locker room would take care of getting the young ones into their swimming attire and back into their Rochester snow suits. And all the staff jumped in. But the time that winter was over both would crawl out of the pool, make their way to the diving board and jump back in...and they could smoothly make their way to a ladder or the shallow end of the pool. That was a bit of a fake out though. neither could stand out of the water in the shallowest part of the pool.
My biggest problem was my wife. A middle aged female who grew up on the Canadian planes and could not swim a stroke. Hired a lovely lady who made her living swimming. We got her water safe in the first summer. We were boaters and I was not willing to take her to Catalina until she could at least survive in the water. I finally believed she was ready when we hit the underwater park in the Florida Keys...I put a shorty wet suit on her but she successfully supervised my snorkling for an hour before we went back to the boat.
What year is this? 1995? Some of you don't get out much or.... just stay home and Watch Fox and Friends... or likely both?
https://www.infantswim.com/ Is the leading/ ONLY child swim self rescuing technique with certified teachers around the country. We've lived in 4 states as parents and ISR was offered in our area in each one. Read up.
But did they have to 'throw' the baby, literally? What's wrong with just walking into the water carrying the child and lowering it into the water? Are the elements of surprise, confusion and terror supposed to be beneficial?
C'mon, you didn't watch that vid and think what fun it would be to toss a baby in the water like that and see what happens?
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