What are the safety measures in place during lessons?
Many places have excellent lessons that are not SwimAmerica. Unfortunately, there are equal numbers of places that sell swimming lessons that are extremely poor at teaching as well as dangerous. Be a wary consumer. And a final word – “Mommy and Me” and similar classes that purport to make the water attractive and fun for the child may well achieve that. And the LAST thing you want is for your infant or preschooler to think that the water is a wonderful and fascinating place, WITHOUT the skill of “Roll over, float, Yell for help.” There will be some tears in the beginning of any lesson program. The effect disappears as soon as they learn competence in the water and the joy and fascination of the aquatic environment asserts itself as they learn to swim. Accept the tears. It’s the cost of learning to save their lives.
