Swimming can help children build self-confidence and support their ability to self-discipline. (Green Shoot Media photo) Water fun and summer seem to go hand in hand. So, getting the kids swimming ...

Since I found out I was having a baby I knew I wanted to sign her up for swim lessons. My daughter started lessons when she was 6 months old. It can be so hard to enroll in and manage lessons that it ...

WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. — New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics suggest kids start swimming lessons as early as age one. This is the first time the AAP has advocated for lessons that ...

Every year, about 900 children die from accidental drowning in the United States. This is largely in part due to lack of access to swimming lessons, living far from bodies of water and lack of ...

FALL RIVER — Summer fun goes better with water — but what if kids can’t swim? The state Department of Conservation and Recreation can fix that for free. The DCR is offering free swimming lessons for ...

Benjamin Franklin famously said that little strokes fell great oaks. And while he obviously wasn't referring to swimming strokes, the same principle applies to learning to swim as to knocking down a ...

Teenage drownings have risen by more than 30 per cent over the past five years, sparking urgent calls for parents to keep ...

WEST PALM BEACH — In an airy indoor pool with fish cutouts on the walls, a group of small children bobbed, floated and tentatively flutter-kicked. It was what it looked like, a starter swimming class.