Baby Swim Lessons: Just Practice These 2 Things

There's only two things you should be practicing with a little one in the pool that actually matter and in this video I'm going to explain the two things and break them down in detail. This is my son Rafi, he absolutely loves the pool. Rafi is a little further advanced than maybe your child but he can float and he can swim short distances in the water. Me and Rafi have been practicing since he's eight days old and we have been through the journey together. I have scared him in the pool, I've pushed him too hard in the pool, and we've also had a lot of fun in the pool and a lot of learning. High five, Rafi! Woohoo! If you want to see his videos on me teaching him to swim, you can find the links to those in the description below. There's a whole playlist on teaching him how to float, and through that process we teach you how to teach a child to float as well. But in this video, the two most important things that we're going to talk about are breath control and... Back floating, that's all a child should really be working on if they're under the age of one and a half. Now there's always special cases where children are very advanced for their age and they're ready for the next step, like swimming short distances, swimming roll to float, but for the sake of this video we're only going to talk about breath control and back floating. So when it comes to breath control there's a couple things we want to look for. Desensitivity of the face So we're wiping Rafi's face. We take water in our hands and wipe our face, or his face, and then we want to get the child under water. So we use our breath control cues, which are physical cues where we open up our hands and we dip him in the water. Ready, set, go. Good. And then we come back up. Very good, buddy. Great job. You would practice that over and over with the child until they have good breath control. Once a child has that, then we go into back floating. We lean the child back. We look for little things that the child does properly. And when they do something proper, we lift them up out of the water, which is called reinforcements. We're going to practice this over and over with the children. And soon your child will be so comfortable, so confident. in the water that teaching them to actually swim when it's time will be a whole lot easier for you if you need help teaching children to swim whether you're a parent or a swim instructor let me know in the comments and i'll do my best to help you and if you are an instructor and you want to get connected with me directly and you want to join a community of like-minded instructors that love and care about what we're doing then joining the swim instructor community the SSU SSU community is the best thing for you. You can find the link to that in the description below. We'll see you guys in the next superhero swim lesson.