Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #91487 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 120 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780757001987
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

A must have for new parents
We started using this programme with our two year old, but it would be much better put into practise with a newborn. It is much slower going at this age, though the lessons and ideas are still working. I would definitely recommend this book to anybody who is expecting or who has a new baby. The programme is simple, easy, and fun. Before your baby can walk or talk, he will be swimming. You can't ask for better than that.

Excellent Book. Wonderful Program
This is an excellent, precise book about introducing your baby and young child to the joys and wonderful benefits of mobility in the water.

There are other books out there but this is by far the best I've read on the subject. I really enjoyed the MANY clear and descriptive pictures showing you the exact form of what is being described.

It is more thorough than any other book I've read. They take you step by step, year by year, all the way from the time your child is one day old up until their sixth birthday. They teach you how to help you baby swim under water, dive, blow bubbles, climb out of the pool, float on their back, and more, while thoroughly enjoying every minute of it. By the time they are six they will be able to swim in numerous yards using a perfect crawl stroke. It is anything BUT stressful but rather fun and productive.

Just hearing of even one child who has drowned or nearly drowned (and is now brain damaged for the rest of his life) is reason enough for every parent to be serious about teaching their young child to swim. The gift is yours to give. This book will show you how to do so in a fun, easy, beneficial, and productive way.

I would enthusiastically recommend it to any parent who has a child under six and would like to give them the beautiful, priceless gift of water safety, enjoyment, increased brain growth and function, and superb physical fitness.

Good information
This book provides good information on how to teach a baby to swim at any age beginning with the new-born. Unfortunately, some techniques were not practical for me, e.g. the book suggests taking baths with the baby. There is a pictures of the author taking a bath with his baby son in a deep Japanese style bath. This is absolutely impossible to replicate in my early 1980s townhome with shallow fiberglass baths/shower enclosures.

Overall, I liked author's gentle approach to teaching the baby to swim because it is i disagree with the "throw the baby in the water and let him figure it out" approach recommended by some.