The ONE Skill That Could Save Your Child’s Life: Swimming Back to the Wall

Swimming back to the stairs or the wall could save your child's life, and today we're going to show you just how easy it is to actually teach this skill. Great float, Rafi. Rafi's 19 months old now, and all we're going to do is sit on the stairs for this drill, making it super easy for him. Now, Rafi has pretty good breath control. He clearly loves the water, has a blast in the pool. This is a good place. You need to get him, you need to have him pretty confident in the water before you do these drills. We're going to have him stand up on the stairs. Can you stand up right here? We're going to go underneath the arms. And what we're going to do is we're going to go in the water and then I'm going to have Rafi swim around me and come to the stairs over here. I want to see him grab that step and then pull himself up. That's what we're going to be looking for. So before you do the drill with your child, you want to go through the motions with them a few times. So we're going to go in the water, Rafi. We're going to swim around and we're going to go back to the stairs but I have curved stairs so for me I'm going to have to step off the step but if your stairs are straight across you're actually not even going to have to move you'll be able to just have the child swim all the way out and around you ready Rafi but the goal is to have them come out and swim around you like this if your child is swimming on their own a little bit you can use a toy you put a toy out here and have them swim grab it and then swim back to the stairs ready buddy okay this time we're gonna go for it we did it above the water now we're gonna do it underwater ready set go i'm not gonna let go of him i'm gonna hold him good gotta kick kick kick kick kick pretty long good and we came up very nice great job Mr. Raffy you did it very good i'm gonna do that same thing again so again i never let go of him i have my hands on the sides of him guiding him i'm teaching him the motion of swimming out turning around and coming back good he's turning around he's got to do that turn on his own good job good and up very good he's doing a great long breath hold that's amazing good job high five Rocky high five double high five yeah okay we're gonna do it again so now we need to do a little less work so again i'm looking for him to do the turn so here look how his head's turning that's what i want to see good i'm gonna give him a breath i didn't think he was gonna make that one good come on there we go good job so i wasn't sure he was gonna make that one so i picked him up just a little bit right before so he could get some breath again we're in the process of teaching him something not getting him afraid of it so it's okay to help him and guide him through this process ready set swim come around and we're going to turn come back very good kick kick kick kicking up let's do it again up and around ready we're going to rinse and repeat we do the drill over and over and over again good all the way around and he's doing a lot of that turning on his own i let him finish the swim on his own. Did he drink water? No he didn't. That is good so guys it's really that simple all you have to do is sit on the step the child's going to jump out swim around you and swim back to the stairs you have to rinse and repeat this drill over and over and over again and eventually your child will be able to jump out turn and swim all the way back to the stairs all on their own if you need help teaching your child to swim all you have to do is let me know their age what you're struggling with in the comments and i'll do my best to help You make sure to subscribe to our channel so you can learn more tips about teaching kids to swim like this one We'll see you in the next superhero swim lesson