when is a good age to start swim lessons

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viola

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Hi all,

When do you think is a good time to start swim lessons.  I have a 3 year and she likes to go to the pool everyday now.
The reason I don't want to start too early is because it seems expensive. 
What about good age to start piano lessons?  Again don't want to waste money if she won't get much out of it.

Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks!
 
The answer is usually as early as they can.

Kids absorb tons of stuff when they are young... I've seen kids at Waterwork Aquatics in diapers. You should pay for lessons until they can handle swimming, treading water etc. Most of those schools want to keep you in and teach different strokes and encourage you to enter them in their meets but I just wanted my kids to learn how to swim, not become the next Olympian.

As for piano... I always encourage some type of musical activity whether it be with an instrument or even vocal lessons (I have my kids in a vocal class right now).
 
We took my son to classes at Waterworks when he was 1.5 years, it was fun for him but he didn't learn/retain much.  Now he's 2.5 years and we just finished a 5 week class at the Woodbury community pool which was much cheaper and he got a lot more out of it, he's remembering his strokes and doing his bubbles, etc. 

At 3, she should be ready for classes now.  The Woodbury classes were only $55 for 5 weeks.  They never asked if we were Woodbury residents, but of course you'll need a fob to get into the pool area.  Not sure if they are supposed to be only for Woodbury residents or not. 

Now that he's taken a class, I took note of all the instructions and I'm just going to teach him myself on the weekends.
 
aquabliss said:
We took my son to classes at Waterworks when he was 1.5 years, it was fun for him but he didn't learn/retain much.  Now he's 2.5 years and we just finished a 5 week class at the Woodbury community pool which was much cheaper and he got a lot more out of it, he's remembering his strokes and doing his bubbles, etc. 

At 3, she should be ready for classes now.  The Woodbury classes were only $55 for 5 weeks.  They never asked if we were Woodbury residents, but of course you'll need a fob to get into the pool area.  Not sure if they are supposed to be only for Woodbury residents or not. 

Now that he's taken a class, I took note of all the instructions and I'm just going to teach him myself on the weekends.
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Woodbury swim lessons are open for all. You just have to tell the staff at the front window that you signed up for the swim lessons and they will let you in. Same goes for any other classed that are held in the Woodbury Rec Center.

 
Who do I contact to sign the kids up for swim lessons at Woodbury?  The price sounds much lower than other places.  Is it too late to sign up for this summer?
 
viola said:
Hi all,

When do you think is a good time to start swim lessons.  I have a 3 year and she likes to go to the pool everyday now.
The reason I don't want to start too early is because it seems expensive. 
What about good age to start piano lessons?  Again don't want to waste money if she won't get much out of it.

Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Not all kids are the same. As a parent you should know.
 
Just wait until they are 3-4.  You can bring them to the pool to get them comfortable yourself (unless you are scared of getting in).  That's when they can actually learn.  I took my son at 1 year in swim diapers.  Waste of money.
 
I think you can tell if your child is ready or not.  We put our kids when they were around 3 to 5 in swimming lessons but they were one of the only ones in class that wouldn't/couldn't put their face in the water or jump into the water or do anything else.  One of my girls slipped on the steps leading into the deeper part of the water and the instructor had his back turned to her and didn't recognize that my child was struggling in the water and about to drown.  After that, she didn't want to go back so we pulled them all out.

A few years back, we put them in semi-private lessons.  Now, my girls are on a swimming team and all my kids love to go to the association pool.  So, give it time and all will be well.  There's no right time to start.
 
ps9 said:
Signed up for a second round of lessons at Woollett, 4 lessons for $28, cheap way to start, sometimes you'll get lucky and the other kids don't show up, and you just paid $7 for a private lesson. 
https://quickreg.ci.irvine.ca.us/Activities/ActivitiesAdvSearch.asp
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Cool. I signed up for the same Sat 10AM classes today at Woollett center.

Last week was our first class; we were amazed when we saw 200-300 kids in various ages swimming at Woollett center last week.
 
Sam78 said:
ps9 said:
Signed up for a second round of lessons at Woollett, 4 lessons for $28, cheap way to start, sometimes you'll get lucky and the other kids don't show up, and you just paid $7 for a private lesson. 
https://quickreg.ci.irvine.ca.us/Activities/ActivitiesAdvSearch.asp
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Cool. I signed up for the same Sat 10AM classes today at Woollett center.

Last week was our first class; we were amazed when we saw 200-300 kids in various ages swimming at Woollett center last week.
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We're at a later class, these fill up fast, my kid has friends from preschool, and we all signed up for the same class, peer pressure is good in this situation.
 
Parent and me swim lessons or more appropriately daddy and me lessons were we went are great for father infant time and child comfort in the pool.  Literally the classes were almost always all dads

People starts as young as 3 months and almost all seemed to love the time in the water. 
 
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