Some kids are not ready to take swimming lessons at an early age. Some of the older coaches I have spoken to have said that developmentally, kids are not all ready to learn the swimming strokes at an early. I took my son to swimming lessons when he was a toddler and that didn't work out too well. I tried again with group lessons starting when he was in preschool and he was not getting it. It was very frustrating to me as a swimmer. On the other hand, he always did love playing in the water and he was very comfortable. I would just let him play with my eye on himand he got strong enough for swimming doing that. Somewhere in that time, it dawned on me that the reason he wasn't learning to swim at his lessons was that he was spending too much waiting at the wall for his turn and he's get cold. He never had a chance to reinforce what he was learning since we didn't belong to a gym with a pool at the time. I finally had him start private lessons when he was 7 and he caught on really quickly. The one on one and the constant opportunity to try out what he was being corrected on really made a difference. He may also have finally been ready to learn to swim at that age.
Some kids are not ready to take swimming lessons at an early age. Some of the older coaches I have spoken to have said that developmentally, kids are not all ready to learn the swimming strokes at an early. I took my son to swimming lessons when he was a toddler and that didn't work out too well. I tried again with group lessons starting when he was in preschool and he was not getting it. It was very frustrating to me as a swimmer. On the other hand, he always did love playing in the water and he was very comfortable. I would just let him play with my eye on himand he got strong enough for swimming doing that. Somewhere in that time, it dawned on me that the reason he wasn't learning to swim at his lessons was that he was spending too much waiting at the wall for his turn and he's get cold. He never had a chance to reinforce what he was learning since we didn't belong to a gym with a pool at the time. I finally had him start private lessons when he was 7 and he caught on really quickly. The one on one and the constant opportunity to try out what he was being corrected on really made a difference. He may also have finally been ready to learn to swim at that age.
