teaching kids to swim is important

Rowdy Gaines, who has won three Olympic gold medals in swimming, has stated that 80% of child drownings happen in front of parents; hot tubs and bathtubs are notoriously dangerous. “There’s an 88% reduction in risk if they take swimming lessons,” he says. Gaines also says that there are what he calls “swimming-kid personalities,” so parents shouldn’t get “too hung up on whether their child isn’t gliding around like a dolphin right away.”

“It’s a life skill and and a survival skill,” Rowdy says. We could not agree more.

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http://uk.businessinsider.com/teaching-kids-how-to-swim-is-incredibly-important-2018-8?r=US&IR=T