do you like swimming with your child(ren)?

I was an excellent swimmer in my school days and won many awards. I wish now that I took my kids swimming when they were babies, but considered myself too fat to be seen in bathers at a public pool. I have taken my kids to swimming lessons when they turned 5 and they also have swimming lessons through the school for one week per year. They are both confident in the pool and at the beach, but I still do regret not taking them when they were babies.

My girls both started swimming when they were about 6 months old. I used to take them to the local Y. Luckily, mine are 4 years apart, so the older one was in a different class by the time the younger one was ready to go swimming! Then when the youngest was 8 months, we bought a house with a pool. My kids have been fish every since!

I love to take my son swimming, he has been around a pool every since he was little, since his father's parents have their own pool. he has no fear of the watter. he will just jump in even if he does not have floaties on. this scares me sometimes, but his dad says he is good when he oes swimming at his grandparents house because he knows that he can go in the pool without his floaties on.

I started taking my son swimming last summer. He would have been around 7 months old. I was going to take him sooner but I was afraid of the clorine so we waited to use the beach. Now, it is winter I take him to parent and tot swimming quite often. The clorine doesn't seem to bother him. We go once or twice a week. He just loves the water. He is 14.5 months old now.