Both my kids can swim! Yay! 🥂🍾 Some notes about the process:

The options were group lessons, individual lessons, and parent-is-the-teacher. We have tried all three. Individual lessons were logistically inconvenient and expensive. Group lessons were equally inconvenient, and while they seem less expensive, my impression was that if your kid is in a class of four kids, all just getting started from zero, then they’re gonna make progress at 30% the speed, for 30% the cost, and 100% of the hassle. False economy. So we ended up at parent-is-the-teacher.
We bought a membership at a nearby gym with a pool. The pool was mostly for adult lap swimming, but they set aside an hour a day for families. It was 4½ feet deep (1.4 m), which was great—deep enough for kids to not scratch their feet on the bottom, but shallow enough for me to comfortably stand.
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First published:
July 29th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qiZp8HFvjgS2Rtxgk/teaching-kids-to-swim

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“Teaching kids to swim” by Steven Byrnes

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