Water safety lessons are important for children to learn
Summer swimming season is here, and that means many people spend time around water. Parents, remember, it’s important that your child learns to swim and knows the key rules for staying safe around pools, hot tubs, lakes and at the beach.
One place to get this important information is the Goldfish Swim School in Montgomery. It offers swimming lessons and the importance of water safety.
The swim school has classes for children from four months old all the way up to 13 years old, with different programs focused on staying safe in the water. Workers also go out into the community, offering free water safety presentations to anyone who wants to learn.
“Learning water safety and how to swim are so important. It greatly reduces the risk of drowning and also, kids have that confidence and water competence and just that knowledge so that when these times do come along where it’s summer and you want to go and maybe rent an AirBnB or go to a resort that has a pool, it’s not all of a sudden like ‘Oh my gosh, my kid doesn’t know how to swim.’ It’s just a whole different thing. They’re comfortable, you can be more at peace knowing that they do know to swim and be competent around water,” Goldfish Swim School general manager Jamie Phelps told Action 8 News.
Goldfish Swim School offers a one-week intensive clinic if you want your child to learn quickly.
Wherever you go, it’s important that your children know how to be safe around water.
The American Red Cross says children need to learn how to perform these five skills in every type of water environment:
- Enter water that’s over your head, then return to the surface.
- Float or tread water for at least 1 minute.
- Turn over and turn around in the water.
- Swim at least 25 yards.
- Exit the water.
