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Swim study reveals a smart pool of talent
Children who swim demonstrate more advanced cognitive and physical abilities than other children according to ground breaking research led by Griffith University.
Water Safety is a lifelong endeavor
It only takes a few minutes to learn these 5 layers of protection and help save a life. An important education website by the National Drowning Prevention Alliance. Follow this link it only takes a few minutes to learn more.
Swimming Lessons Do Not Increase Drowning Risk in Young Children
Providing very young children with swimming lessons appears to have a protective effect against drowning and does not increase children’s risk of drowning, reported researchers at the National Institutes of Health. "Swimming lessons are appropriate for consideration as part of a comprehensive drowning prevention strategy," said Duane Alexander, M.D., director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the NIH Institute at which the study was conducted.
Water Competency, Swim Lessons, and Swim Skills
This Prevention of Drowning Policy Statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics has so much important information in it we felt it important to provide a link.
Here is a small excerpt from it:
Inadequate supervision is often cited as a contributing factor for childhood drowning, especially for younger children. Adequate supervision, described as close, constant, and attentive supervision of young children in or around any water, is a primary and absolutely essential preventive strategy. For beginning swimmers, adequate supervision is “touch supervision,” in which the supervising adult is within arm’s reach of the child so he or she can pull the child out of the water if the child’s head becomes submerged under water. Evaluated interventions shown to increase the quality of supervision include swim lessons in which the need for continued parental supervision is emphasized.
WHAT IS THE SAFER 3 MESSAGE?
There are three dimensions of risk in every drowning; the water, the person and the response. Thus we created the Safer 3 Message as a simple way to educate people simply, quickly and easily. We chose “safer” over “safe” because no one is ever completely free from drowning risk when they are enjoying the water. The risk may vary in degree from very slight to very severe. Follower the link for more about more about the Safer 3.