Lessons are they worth it?

It may be a funny question to us swim instructors, but are swimming lessons worth it as far as teaching children? Well its definitely not a dumb question that is for sure. If you don’t know something then you ask a question right?

The one thing I always tell people is that swimming actually is a LIFE SKILL! Personally I believe it should be taught in school as part of learning as we grow. I had just was listening to a podcast not too long ago and they mentioned something I knew but didn’t know that the numbers had gotten worse.

Shocking numbers

I learned that 40% of white people and 60% of black people in America can NOT swim. There has been actual stories of kids jumping into their pool at home and their parents jumping in to save them and the PARENT can NOT swim. Unfortunately in some of these stories people actually lost their lives.

This is a HUGE problem that we need to realize and fix to be honest. I know people dismiss swimming lessons and think that its all good no one is drowning very much. FALSE! Did you know that drowning is 4th in top 10 leading causes of child and adolescent death in the U.S as of 2018?

The numbers above shocked me as a swim instructor and didn’t really think that it was this bad. So are swimming lessons worth it? Yes they are very much so worth every little cent. It will save your life and your childs life to learn how to swim. It does not take very long for a child to drown at all.

Now I can NOT say that every swim instructor or swim school is worth it of course because everyone has their own style of teaching. The one thing I will say is please get your child familiar with the water at an early age because it will only help if something was to go wrong. It will be worth yours or your childs life to have that LIFE SKILL.