Globalti
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Very useful article for anybody who has kids or is around kids and water:
http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/
http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/
We'd been playing in the pool at Centre Parcs................
...........She's booked in for swimming lessons over the summer holidays.
I love the idea of swimming being a class issue, but you are quite right. I can't offer any sensible answer, beyond the reminiscence that growing up 'on the wrong side of the tracks' as it were, we spent loads of time going swimming, just for (cheap/free) fun. Local pools, rivers, lakes etc. It's just that people don't look to this for time-filling/entertainment any more. There have to be lessons. Apart from school swimming sessions, I never had a lesson at all, yet was a strong swimmer (see above, though) by the age of 5, and I was entering diving competitions from 9 onwards.Shaun, whether you realise it or not you actually hint at something that I think is a massive problem. It appears that you and I are reasonably financially comfortable? I'm not saying rich or wealthy but with disposable income to spend on nice holidays and swimming lessons (not cheap even though run by the local authority at our public pools). I really worry about what happens to the kids from poorer or deprived families
Even when I was at school we had swimming classes for a few years and then the swimming was stopped in favour of football, cricket and basketball.I really worry about what happens to the kids from poorer or deprived families as, to the best of my knowledge, the schools programme for swimming lessons seems to verge on being non-existant where I live. How are these kids supposed to learn how to swim?