How to teach a child to swim
Tips Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
How to teach a child to swim up to 3 years
Water treatments with the baby is undoubtedly useful, and to accustom them to the toddler can be a very early age. However, they do not imply an independent movement, and therefore nothing to do with swimming do not have.
In addition, these classes perpetuate wrong movements and posture. As a result, when the child will later develop full sail, it will have a long time to retrain. To lay the foundation for the young swimmer, it is necessary to acquaint him with the element of water gradually and only in the form of games.
How to prepare baby
The main task of the parents at this stage - to help the child overcome the fear of high water. Ideally, you can try to teach him to immerse the face in the water and blow bubbles mouth and nose. Then the skills will be useful for proper breathing. To do this, do the following:
- Go in with a toddler and a warm clear water toys in a shallow pool.
- Spray at each other. Do not be afraid to get water on your face and relax the child so that he was not afraid of it.
- Blowing bubbles together, dropping her face in the water. First, the mouth, and then the nose.
- Ask toddler squats, plunging into the water, and then emerges.
How to teach a child to swim from 3 to 5 years
Kids at this age is already possible to learn to swim freely without any style if to show restraint. Young children are not able to concentrate for a long time, and follow the instructions to perform unusual for them things, so training should take place in a playful manner.
1. Choose the right place
It is best to teach a child to swim in the pool or large tub like Jacuzzi. The sea is much less suitable because of the salt water and waves that interfere. River or lake are not perfect: the water is cold and opaque, so the baby will be difficult psychologically.
Depth - up to his waist or just above a swimmer felt safe. The water temperature is desirably higher - 25-28 ° C. At the same time, until the baby does not get used to swimming glasses, moisture does not cause burning eyeIf they open at depth.
2. Remove the sleeves and vest
Discard any equipment designed to maintain afloat. Circles, boards and other devices violate the balance of the body and do not give the baby to learn how to float on water.
When using a vest or bracers child pressed into the bearings and high lifts his head, straining his neck. To truly learn to swim only by diving under the water, so it is important to remove all the boats at once.
3. Encourage your child to the points
And all subsequent steps, the need to perform exclusively in the form of a game, but rather more and showing by example. With the five-year plans the problems likely will not arise, but younger children may act up.
Try glasses kid and notice how they are going to him. Constantly praise and admire them, even if it was possible only to lean defense to face and not to have gum on the back of the head. Click on the points and show how funny grunting sound they make, and try to offer it to the child. If the points are not fixed on his face, saying "Glazik come off."
If a kid is afraid and does not want to wear an accessory, be friendly, do not press and patience. toys Switch to fuss and try again later. Gradually after 5-10 fittings it will succumb, especially when understand how good glasses seen under water.
4. Give your child get used to the water
Before teaching the child need to be liberated, and stop being afraid of the water. To do this, a little naughty with it.
- Spritz in the shallow water splashing and kicking.
- Hold hands and face dropping into the water, blowing bubbles mouth and nose.
- Show each other tongues and build underwater antics.
5. Exhaust lowering persons in water
Swimming lessons built on a person immersed in the water. It is unnatural for a child, so can not just say to him: "Do like this." And here come to the aid game.
- First squirted so that moisture gets on the face of the baby. Can a little water it, showing that it is scary and fun.
- Squat and bounce at different depths to immersion water reached the child until the lips, then to the eye, and so gradually ask him to plunge for a moment with his head. Turn a blind eye when it is not necessary.
- Scatter shallow toys that they could not get a hand, not plunging headlong, and ask the kid to spend a rescue operation or collection of treasures.
- When a child hlebnot water and coughed, react calmly and fun, making it clear that nothing bad happened. Ask sharply breathe through the nose, as in blowing the nose, and the remaining water is easy to leave from the nasopharynx, and with them unpleasant feeling.
6. Learn to exhale the water
The next stage - development of exhalation into water. It is used in all styles and is key in the correct swimming technique. Partially child is already familiar with the reception, blowing bubbles is exhaling.
- Continue to consolidate a skill, blowing bubbles at a side basin. Doing this kid should definitely nose because the mouth is carried out breath.
- Jumps and squats from the previous step will also help. Add to them exhaling into the water at the time of immersion.
- For proper exhalation ask your child to take a breath, closed her mouth and nose to publish zing "th-th-th."
7. Practice to keep afloat
To do this, there are simple exercises - "jellyfish" and "asterisk", which are very popular with children. Their essence is to hang in the water in apnea and relaxation of the neck.
How to do the activity "jellyfish"
- Ask your kid to lie down on the water and keep it slightly under the breast. The whole body, and most importantly, the neck are relaxed, reminiscent of a jellyfish. See the bottom of the need, not in front of him.
- In order to get the child of such actions, make up the game with a treasure hunt, or something like that.
How to do the activity "asterisk"
- Put the young swimmer in the water and keep under his chest with his hands. Ask him to dissolve his hands and feet, depicting a star.
- As in the previous exercise, a person should be dipped into the water and relax your neck. Use motivation game.
- Another option that can be performed for diversity - "asterisk" on the back.
8. Try sliding in water
Now it's time to start moving. For this there is a special exercise "arrow", which is the basic posture in many swimming styles.
- Keep your baby at the breast, and ask him to raise his hands above his head, and then gently lie down on the water, straighten the body and relax the neck.
- When fix this technique, let the child try to do all of the above yourself. Get away for a couple of meters from the edge of the pool and tell your feet to push off from the side and move in your direction.
9. Exhaust leg movement
There are two options: the movement crawlWhen the legs are moved alternately up and down, or in the style of breaststroke - legs bent at the knees and a swimmer pushes the water in the manner of frogs.
For kids at this age both options are correct. And to understand which one is better suited to the child, it is easy, if you ask it to swim a short distance and check any movement it will make intuitive - mahi or tremors.
The essence of the exercise is to make the "arrow" and sliding to include in the leg work. Both options are possible to perform better in the proper technique. See how it is done, and show your child on land or in shallow water.
- Krol: legs hardly bend at the knees, and move from the hips, feet as much as possible to pull back. Movements are more like the work of scissors instead of biking.
- Breaststroke: Legs bent at the knees and a little catching up to him, pursed foot forward. Then they divorced in hand and there is a sharp jolt.
10. Connect the hand
For a small child the easiest way to move breaststroke, when strokes are made with both hands simultaneously.
However, do not necessarily require the toddler their flawless execution. If it is too difficult to be driven appliances like a dog when strokes are performed alternately and hands as if clinging to the water.
The principle is the same. Movement starts from the "arrow", then in the works include the arms and legs.
11. Teach your baby to breathe
All the previous exercises are performed in apnea, but so far not proplyvosh. Therefore, when the child will master all the basic movements, you need to teach him to lift his head and breathe and at the same time does not stop.
This should be done only by mouth, because when breathing through the nose drops of water can get into the nasal passages and cause discomfort. Fix the skill of breathing through games in fish.
- "Thoughtful Fish" - at a depth where the child does not get to the bottom, have to push off from the side and slowly swim to you, face down in the water.
- "Curious Fish" - let the child will perform the previous exercise, and then your team a lift without inhaling head. At this point, it should help themselves, starting from the feet of water.
- "Admiring fish" - this time the baby to do the same things, only with the rise of the head quickly inhale breath. Pre can train the sharp intake of breath during surfacing in a shallow part of the pool where the water on the baby's chest.
How to teach a child to swim 5-6 years of age and older
Older children perceive the learning process more effective. They consciously perform tasks and exercise work out, so at that age, you can teach a child to swim as an adult.
This is done according to the standard algorithm, which is described in detail in our articleOr by express methods. For example, Denis Tarakanov trainer system allows you to learn to swim for one or two sessions. Just ask a child to do the following exercises in order. Each about 10 times.
1. On the steps of the pool or in the children's pond, where the depth reaches 30-40 cm, ask your child to stretch his hands to the bottom and stretch out full length. The whole body is immersed, the water only a head, neck relaxed. The swimmer must hold your breath and lie there for 5-10 seconds, then lifted her face gently, breathe by mouth and repeat the exercise.
2. Let your child do the same things, but will drop the person into the water and lift one of the hands, relying only on the second.
3. Repeat the learned technique, but now explain to your child that he must remove both hands and hang in the water so, believing myself to five.
4. Ask the child pull arms in front at the time of hovering and stay in this position for 5-10 seconds on a breath-hold. After you are rested his hands to let the bottom, he lifts his head to inhalation mouth and repeat.
5. Let the kid will depart from the pool edge at 50-70 cm, and turned to face him, will perform a new variation of the exercise. After inhalation need to gently push on the bottom and slide forward with outstretched hands, without lifting the face from the water.
6. Connect the legs: after the child has to push to talk feet gently, without pulling the foot out of the water.
7. Now, the work includes hands: let the kid rowing of a dog or breaststroke. The main thing to move them under water at face level, but not under the belly.
8. Ask your toddler to repeat the previous exercise, but when driving gently raise his head above the water for a few seconds. Inhale when it is not necessary, simply attach the action to understand, that it's easy.
9. Finally, let the kid alienate will float, moving his arms and legs, and then try to lift his head above water and breathe in the mouth.
Details of how to correctly perform each exercise, you can see in the video:
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