Nancie - you don't know what you are looking at...or should I say you do know what you are looking at but have know idea this was created.
If you saw a photo of a woman, AT her by-the-chart ideal weight - you would naturally think 'good for her'.
But if I told you that was achieved by taking her away from her family and locking her in a closet for 20 hours a day, then limiting what she ate the remaining 4 hours, until she got to her good looking weight, then taking a pretty picture of her for you to be sold on, (and certainly not any of her crying and in her locked-up condition) would you think....(by the logic you are currently using)...well, that's OK really, it is for good reason she was locked up - and that crying, traumatizing etc. was just what was necessary. People can get disabling conditions from being overweight and even DIE...right? It is for her OWN GOOD that she went throught this system of lock-up...in the end it is very healthy actually and live preserving.
Is that what you'd say?
If the aquatic method that you think you want applied to your child is so clearly 'good' (First noted world wide in Australia in the early 1960's - and later tweeked by a few in the US) - then all national aquatic organizations would be using it, right? (actually the method is more akin to the ancient 'art' of having your forehead read than it is, as is often erroneously suggested, a well researched system that the mainstream practioners just can't accept. Heuy! Don't be fooled.
Instead, swim teachers have forsaken it long ago for being too harsh. Did you know that? This is short of a small collection of independent Y's in Fla. who have accepted grant money to have this program as one offered in their facilities - even though it runs contrary to national Y guidelines for infant and toddler aquatic programs - grant money talks to the board of some Y's and they are too easily fooled - as you have started to be.
This method is a case of the cure being worse than the cold? There are other healthy preventatives and programs...look for them.
Haven't read your blog but for helicopter moms who aren't above slamming their children 'for their own good' then this is the method for them. Crying isn't 'a requirement' of learning to swim - and there are many options in drowing prevention for young children without doing what all most all swim instructors consider torturing kids 'for their own good'.
99.9% of aquatic programs in the US are by the method and philosophy expressed well at babyswimming.com Take a look and then get on the right track rather than off the cliff.
I typically do some serious research before "jumping in" o do anything. While I am seriously considering it, that doesn't mean I'm just going to do it. Some things I seriously consider, I do some research and nothing comes of it.
As I did some research, I found that there aren't any instructors here anyway. You would have to look up ISR or "infant swimming resource" to get to the main site, which I found annoying.
That said, have you actually read the home site?
It doesn't seem that their philosophy has a lot to do with forcing a kid to do anything.
Fortunately for me, we don't have a pool here, but after staying at a campground that did have a pool, it did get me thinking of the possibilities of showing my kids to swim.
It's easier to teach older kids, I taught my son and my 5-year-old daughter the basics, but of course, they were much older than a few months and they know how to follow instructions well. A 20-month-old is another matter. What's more she's as strong-willed as I am. ;P
Thanks for your comment and the site, I will check it out.
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Nancie - you don't know what you are looking at...or should I say you do know what you are looking at but have know idea this was created.
If you saw a photo of a woman, AT her by-the-chart ideal weight - you would naturally think 'good for her'.
But if I told you that was achieved by taking her away from her family and locking her in a closet for 20 hours a day, then limiting what she ate the remaining 4 hours, until she got to her good looking weight, then taking a pretty picture of her for you to be sold on, (and certainly not any of her crying and in her locked-up condition) would you think....(by the logic you are currently using)...well, that's OK really, it is for good reason she was locked up - and that crying, traumatizing etc. was just what was necessary. People can get disabling conditions from being overweight and even DIE...right? It is for her OWN GOOD that she went throught this system of lock-up...in the end it is very healthy actually and live preserving.
Is that what you'd say?
If the aquatic method that you think you want applied to your child is so clearly 'good' (First noted world wide in Australia in the early 1960's - and later tweeked by a few in the US) - then all national aquatic organizations would be using it, right? (actually the method is more akin to the ancient 'art' of having your forehead read than it is, as is often erroneously suggested, a well researched system that the mainstream practioners just can't accept. Heuy! Don't be fooled.
Instead, swim teachers have forsaken it long ago for being too harsh. Did you know that? This is short of a small collection of independent Y's in Fla. who have accepted grant money to have this program as one offered in their facilities - even though it runs contrary to national Y guidelines for infant and toddler aquatic programs - grant money talks to the board of some Y's and they are too easily fooled - as you have started to be.
This method is a case of the cure being worse than the cold? There are other healthy preventatives and programs...look for them.
Haven't read your blog but for helicopter moms who aren't above slamming their children 'for their own good' then this is the method for them. Crying isn't 'a requirement' of learning to swim - and there are many options in drowing prevention for young children without doing what all most all swim instructors consider torturing kids 'for their own good'.
99.9% of aquatic programs in the US are by the method and philosophy expressed well at babyswimming.com Take a look and then get on the right track rather than off the cliff.
I typically do some serious research before "jumping in" o do anything. While I am seriously considering it, that doesn't mean I'm just going to do it. Some things I seriously consider, I do some research and nothing comes of it.
As I did some research, I found that there aren't any instructors here anyway. You would have to look up ISR or "infant swimming resource" to get to the main site, which I found annoying.
That said, have you actually read the home site?
It doesn't seem that their philosophy has a lot to do with forcing a kid to do anything.
Fortunately for me, we don't have a pool here, but after staying at a campground that did have a pool, it did get me thinking of the possibilities of showing my kids to swim.
It's easier to teach older kids, I taught my son and my 5-year-old daughter the basics, but of course, they were much older than a few months and they know how to follow instructions well. A 20-month-old is another matter. What's more she's as strong-willed as I am. ;P
Thanks for your comment and the site, I will check it out.
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