How to Teach a Child to Swim - 6 Simple Skills to Learn

Want to teach your child how to swim but don’t know where to start? Here’s six simple skills you can use to help your child learn to swim for at home lessons. It’s perfect for babies, kids and toddlers 1.5-4 years old, but can work for younger or older ones too.

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⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Free Lesson Plan
00:27 - 1. How to Enter Pool Safely
01:05 - 2.1 Learning to Hold Breath
01:47 - 2.2 Taking Child Underwater
02:19 - 3. Back Float
02:48 - 4. Pulls & Kicks
03:33 - 5. Rolling to Back
03:56 - 6. Jump & Turn
05:00 - Outro

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[daybreakswim]

Swim into our subscribe button like a kid cannonballing into a pool! 💦🐳 #SubscribeNow

[NicMargieZoretic]

So excited to use this program 😊😊 it’s so much easier to keep consistent frequent practice going for toddlers when you aren’t tied to a strict schedule ❤❤

[lorelorediaz]

Thank you so much!! I was looking something to teach my girls to swim while we're living overseas.

[misosong]

this is amazing, thanks so much for putting this together!

[marynaegele]

Thank you for this! The closest swim lessons to us is 30 minutes and I have 4 children. I would spend my life driving back and forth. I was looking for something like this! I can take them 5 min up the road to our community pool and teach them myself.

[anastasiiademchuk]

You’re wonderful! I am so happy to use this video! Thank you so much 🙏

[Mike_Lowery]

This is amazing excited to take my son swimming today thank you

[claudiaperez]

Such a beautiful video it really touched my heart ❤thank you amazing mom for sharing. your baby is so precious God bless you🙏🏻. My friend's 6 year old daughter drowned 3 years ago since then. It just makes me panic to see children’s who can’t swim near or in a pool, it makes me very anxious. I am a grandmother of beautiful children, I am in charge of taking them to their swimming classes. The truth is that it is priceless and it is the best gift you can give these little ones the techniques to survive in the water.

[ShortswithFedora]

Thank you, I'll soon start swimming

[SuperShameka]

I know how to swim I learned how to swim when I was just

[rachelcecil]

How do you know if they’re holding their breath when you’re pouring water on their head? How do you know they’re going to hold their breath underwater? I feel like toddlers don’t understand how to do that

[ShkelqimBejko-ddxi]

Wow that's awesome beautiful 😍❤️❤️❤️

[Salvation]

I tried this with my 13 month old and he swallowed water once I dunked him. What should I do? He seems to hold breath with the water pouring in head but not the under water pull

[cheriespriggs]

Except child screams murder for 6 months or longer at pouring water over face…..