What age did your child start swim lessons?
Learning to swim can be life-saving, but it’s hard to know the best age to place a child in formal lessons. What age did your child start swim lessons?
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Both of my kids started at about 20 months. it was fun to be in the water with them but I was happy when they graduated to the classes that did not require parent participation!
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With how many pools there are in Dallas and knowing my daughter will likely be swimming a lot, we just started lessons at 14 months. We have an 11 month old in our class who can already do 8-10 second under water, which is incredible to me. Swimming skills are so important for toddlers!
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Agree that a lot depends on exposure to pools/water as a measure for when to begin lessons! We are travelling in December to a seaside location (so I hope to have my 2 year old introduced to some fundamentals by then).
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Living in Central Ohio, our only real swim season is in the summer. All my kids started at 3 when they were potty trained and old enough to be in the water without me. They were all swimming independently by 4. Agree with everyone that it’s such an important thing to learn no matter the age.
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My kids did the parent participation classes and then on their own. My youngest still needs to be in lessons and the older one does well now as he passed the YMCA swim test.
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We have two younger kids and two older kids. For the older two, we tried lessons when they were really young, but found that they didn't actually learn to swim well until they were much older, in elementary school. It was nice to have them be more comfortable in water, but I also felt like that exposure didn't have to happen in formal, paid lessons. With the younger two, we tried early again, but they were so resistant that we backed off for a bit. We tried again when they were 5 and 7 and the difference was like night and day. They loved it, learned quickly, and we were overall so much happier with the process and end result.
