Comments on: Formal Swim Training Reduces Toddler Drowning Risk http://dailydose.righthealth.com/life-lifestyle/formal-swim-training-reduces-toddler-drowning-risk/ We feature the one health item you simply cannot afford to miss. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:07:06 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Angela Scott http://dailydose.righthealth.com/life-lifestyle/formal-swim-training-reduces-toddler-drowning-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-537 Angela Scott Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:11:50 +0000 http://dailydose.kosmix.com/?p=1317#comment-537 When my son was 3 we started him taking swimming lessons because we spend a great deal of time each summer at the lake. As my parents have a lake house within an hour drive from our place. One afternoon while swimming in the lake with friends my son lost his floatation device. I was on the bank not in the water. And another child thought he could reach my son. While he tried to get close to Nathan as he would approach the water would push Nathan further out into the lake until this youngman could no longer touch bottom. Nathan kept bobbing up and down in the water. He would go under for a few seconds and then kick back to the surface and say hey mom I'm bobbing. I finally reached my son and brought him back to the bank and secured his floatation device. Nathan never got scared. He just kept bobbing and telling me hey look at me I'm bobbing. I am so glad he had taken those swim lessons. One of the first things they teach a young child is how to breath out while under water and to bob up and down in the water to go under and kick back to the top. Without that knowledge at age 3 I probably would have lost my son to a terrible drowning accident. Today Nathan is 18 and will graduate High School in a couple of months. Swim lessons are a must for anyone with a young child who will be around water at any time. When my son was 3 we started him taking swimming lessons because we spend a great deal of time each summer at the lake. As my parents have a lake house within an hour drive from our place. One afternoon while swimming in the lake with friends my son lost his floatation device. I was on the bank not in the water. And another child thought he could reach my son. While he tried to get close to Nathan as he would approach the water would push Nathan further out into the lake until this youngman could no longer touch bottom. Nathan kept bobbing up and down in the water. He would go under for a few seconds and then kick back to the surface and say hey mom I’m bobbing. I finally reached my son and brought him back to the bank and secured his floatation device. Nathan never got scared. He just kept bobbing and telling me hey look at me I’m bobbing. I am so glad he had taken those swim lessons. One of the first things they teach a young child is how to breath out while under water and to bob up and down in the water to go under and kick back to the top. Without that knowledge at age 3 I probably would have lost my son to a terrible drowning accident. Today Nathan is 18 and will graduate High School in a couple of months. Swim lessons are a must for anyone with a young child who will be around water at any time.

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