Three Ways to Teach Toddlers to Swim Safely

 Teaching toddlers to swim is a fun activity to do, you can teach your toddler to swim in various ways, of course, ensuring safety for our toddler is the most important thing when he plays with water.

Here are three ways to teach toddlers to swim safely:

1) Introduce water

The first time your toddler plays in the pool, he must get to know the characteristics of swimming pool water, some toddlers may feel afraid when they just interact with the water in the swimming pool. therefore you need to lead him to get rid of fear and increase the joy in his heart to keep trying to play with water in the pool.

At this stage, your child may feel stiff, but when your child is happy and sees his peers playing in the pool, his fear slowly disappears, giving way to his desire to play in the pool.

2) Shows children or people learning to swim

In swimming pools there are usually teachers who are training their students to swim properly, some of them are early childhood children or teenagers who have reached adulthood. This is very good for the development of your toddler who is learning to swim.

In general, in swimming pools there is a place for swimming for toddlers and a place for swimming for teenagers and adults, in this section, you can hold your child to watch those students who are learning to swim so he can see how to swim properly shown by the youth.

3) Give Your Toddler a Buoyancy Tube.

Giving your toddler a float tube is a method that you can do so that your child can hold on to a float or other device so that he can move his legs freely as if he were swimming perfectly. When the toddler moves his legs, he can move forward and backward in the direction he wants.

At first, it might feel stiff in his feet to move in the direction he is going but when he often practices and plays in the pool he will become more agile, calm, and proficient at swimming.

In the video above you can see a toddler learning to swim in the opposite direction using the help of a float, where previously the toddler was afraid to use a float, but when he saw his friends using a float, he imitated and learned to swim as his friends did.

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