Swimming Lessons Really Do Keep Kids Safer
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Infant safety
Just teaching the kids to get out of the pool is key. Learning to elbow - elbow - knee - knee will prevent a drowning. If your in San Diego noonanfamilyswimschool.com had an infant program called splashbabes that teaches just this.
The price you pay for a lesson or 10 will change their lives.
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Drownproofing
It is important to make the distinction between Drownproofing - the water survival technique that was invented and taught by Fred Lanoue at Georgia Tech. - and the new fashion for immersion of very young children.
The best advice I can give to parents who are considering enrolling their infants into one of these programs, is to stand back and take a detached view of what is going on. Imagine that, instead of human children, you saw puppies and kittens being subjected to similar treatment. Would you immediately call the ASPCA?
My own view is that there is children should be introduced very gradually to swimming. They should be allowed to learn at their own pace rather than being pushed to fulfil parental ambitions.
If you want to know about real drownproofing, look at www.drownproofing.com
Drownproofing Classes vs. Swim Lessons
"Drownproofing" infant/toddler swim classes have to be the dumbest thing I have ever seen in my life. The babies usually scream at the top of their lungs when they come up to the surface, swallow water and go back under the water. Repeat this scene over and over. I think these children will actually have a higher chance of drowning. Their parents are lulled into thinking that they don't have to watch their children every second they are around water, including bath tubs. Another possible scenario is that these children are so traumatized by these "lessons" they will not want to take swimming lessons - therefore increasing their risk of drowning. Would we take elderly people and drop them into the deep end of the pool, watch them scream, choke and go back down under the water? Of course not! Why do this with small children and babies? It is absolutely ridiculous.
A step in the right direction
As a behavioral scientist working for the last 43 years to prevent drowning deaths and near-drowning scenarios that involve infants and young children, it is encouraging to see that the ground breaking study recently published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine was introduced with an editorial comment titled, “Drowning Prevention, the time is now.” Sadly, the strategy used for the last several decades consisting of supervision, pool fences and CPR has done little to reduce the growing number of children under age 5 in the United States who drown every year. That strategy has also done little to reduce the $3.4 billion spent every year for the medical care associated with near-drowning survivors under 5 years of age.
Dr. Brenner’s work in the area of drowning prevention has consistently led to policy change and rethinking by medical and aquatic safety organizations. This new case study, “Association Between Swimming Lessons and Childhood Drowning,” should serve as the starting point for the vital studies that must follow if we are to solve the problem of pediatric drowning.
Lessons for infants in the water, whether formal or not, must include comprehensive and effective adult education. The programs should aim to make the baby safer in the water and the family safer around it. In that, our research has shown segmented supervision, permanent pool fences with gates that are spring loaded and fitted with tamper-proof alarms and the engineering of the aquatic exposures and environment to complement the survival swimming instruction for the young children has worked without mishap for over 175,000 families since 1966.
We look forward to contributing to the growing body of research that Dr. Brenner’s study has initiated such that we can all look to a day where not one more child drowns.
Harvey Barnett, Ph.D.
Founder Infant Swimming Resource
