Let’s be real about puddle jumpers. If you don’t fully understand the long-term consequences of introducing your child to one… listen up. Your 16-year-old instructor at the big-box swim school? They’re managing 25 kids a day. They’re not tracking your child’s swim development like you think they are. Your private instructor? A lot of them are just trying to keep you happy and keep getting paid. Most won’t tell you the hard truth. But I’m not most instructors. I’m an early childhood development e

Let’s be real about puddle jumpers. If you don’t fully understand the long-term consequences of introducing your child to one… listen up. Your 16-year-old instructor at the big-box swim school? They’re managing 25 kids a day. They’re not tracking your child’s swim development like you think they are. Your private instructor? A lot of them are just trying to keep you happy and keep getting paid. Most won’t tell you the hard truth. But I’m not most instructors. I’m an early childhood development e

NEVER TRAINING WHEELS. That’s not helping either. JUST YOU TAKING ACTION. Yes running next to them. Putting effort in. Kinda like swimming. YOU.BABE.TUB= kid swimming at 2 years old. (When you learn from me) Not putting off age appropriate skills/opportunities, thinking it makes sense to send them to some teenager for 40 bucks a half hour when they’re 3. Too late, AND ineffective. Oh- side note- swim schools are not in the business of getting your kid safe as fast as possible. They are in the bu