Your goggle questions answered, by Marjan Moosavi, founder of Blue Wave Swim School These days swim goggles have become an inseparable element of ‘swimming kit’ and buying goggles has become like swimming customs. Parents buy their children goggles regardless of whether or not they can swim. I get questions like ‘does my child need goggles?’ …

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Love swimming! We All Should and Here’s Why! A fabulous Valentine’s Day is filled with beautiful flowers, chocolate, and interesting presents. But, when we talk about loving something like swimming, it would be good to know why we love being in the water. Are you wondering why you could love swimming? We love things and …

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Can Swimming Make Children More Happy? This week (4-10 February 2019) is Children’s Mental Health Week. Regardless of age, Mental health is an important part of our overall health and these days parents pay a great deal of attention to their children’s happiness. A happy child is active and expresses positive emotions and feelings at …

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Swimming Lessons for 3 Year Olds and Pre-schoolers Pre-Schoolers Starting With Swimming Lessons All swimming experts recommend starting children young and these days many parents do! The reason is, that learning to swim must always start by getting used to water and learning to relax in it. The younger a child is, the easier the …

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Very often, after a term or two of swimming lessons, parents start asking their kid’s swim teacher this question:‘when is my child going to swim?’. Although there are so many ways that people imagine and define ‘swimming’, normally what most parents mean by ‘swimming’ is when their kids can move their arms, kick their legs …

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When Your Child Can Swim Universally, the vast majority of parents sign up their children in swim schools to have swimming lessons so children can swim. Swimming can be for leisure or as a sport. Although not all families might be interested in their children becoming great swimmers but, the definition of a competent swimmer …

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Parental Guide; How Children Learn to Swim  Has your child ever told you, ‘I don’t want to do swimming lessons anymore’? And going to each lesson after that turned out to be a challenge at home? Have you ever wondered how you could help your child to progress more easily and to have a smoother …

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History of Teaching Swimming Swimming is a fun sport and a life skill, and it is no wonder that it’s high on most children’s activity lists. Teaching children to swim dates back to early biblical times and it was part of the ancient school programmes in Greek and Roman empires. Roman soldiers had to be …

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Toddler Swimming and How is Done Globally I was really surprised when I heard Rebecca Adlington mention that although she used to go swimming with her parents and her older sisters alot as a young child, she never did any toddler swim lessons or baby swim classes when she was little. I met 26-year-old Rebecca …

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Blue Wave Swim School is 5 years old on Sunday 22 Feb. Hurray! Yes, our Birthday is coming up soon! It’s hard to believe but, 5 years has gone by so fast since we had so much fun teaching local children swimming. It is our honour that for 5 years has been spent teaching swimming to children …

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