Discover what a young child can learn when placed in the hands of an Infant Aquatics Specialist. Infant Aquatics specialists teach survival swimming skills to children 6 months to 6 years old. Benchmarks are established at each stage in the program that combines both swimming and safety skills. Each class encourages learning through activities that allow students to explore the water in a creative and comfortable environment.
Our certified instructor will teach your child to safely enjoy the water in weeks not years!
Why Infant Aquatics?
Children are naturally drawn to pools, hot tubs, lakes, ponds, streams, reservoirs and beaches. Despite a parent’s best efforts at supervision, it only takes one head turn before an accident has occurred.
It’s not just about being comfortable in the water, it’s being able to swim and survive. Empower your child with the skills needed to safely enjoy the water! Discover the Infant Aquatics Difference today!
What Can Infants Learn?
Infants six to twelve months can learn to:
- Hold their breath in the water.
- Roll from a face-down position to a face up back float.
- Float, relax and breathe until rescued by an adult.
- Perform these skills fully clothed.
Particularly active infants may also learn to propel a short distance through the water between two parents. Learning these skills takes approximately 12 to 20 lessons.
Children who are walking (1-6 years) can learn to:
- Hold their breath in the water.
- Swim with their face in the water to the steps, side, or parent.
- Roll over onto their back when they need to breathe.
- Flip back onto their tummy to continue to swim until reaching their destination, or roll to their back should they need to breathe again.
- Perform these skills fully clothed.
The time frame for children to master these skills is typically 16 to 24 lessons.
Reasons to Get Started
- You want your child to learn to swim and float in weeks, not years.
- You or your extended family live or vacation around backyard pools or natural bodies of water.
- You enjoy swimming and want your child to enjoy it as well.
- You would rather take control of your child’s safety than take chances.
Our Teaching Methods
How Are Lessons Structured?
Initial lessons with Infant Aquatics are one-on-one, approximately 10 minutes in length, usually 4 or 5 days per week for 4-6 weeks. Each lesson builds upon the previous day’s lesson, so there is measurable progress each week.
How Can You Teach a Baby Who Cannot Talk?
Swimming and floating are motor skills that can be taught to babies through repetitive exercises, along with gentle verbal encouragement. We show the babies what we want them to do, and over a short period of time, they learn the skills necessary to survive. Be assured, we do not throw children into the water! We use a variety of methods, combining the best ideas from swim schools and infant/toddler programs throughout the world. Our goal is to make learning fun so that your child will love his water experience.
What is the Parent’s Role?
We encourage parents of toddlers to get in the water for the first few lessons so that your child willl experience less stranger and separation anxiety. Our goal for children of all ages is to establish a relationship of trust between your child and the instructor. Once this occurs, your child will learn to trust him/herself in the water and real progress begins.