4 ways swimming can help your kids with school

4 ways swimming can help your children with school

Does your child have a tough time focusing in school and interacting with others? Not to worry as swimming can help your child perform better at school! Here are 4 ways how:

Confidence

It can be intimidating for new swimmers to let go of the wall and take those first few pulls and kicks toward the other side of the pool. In the same way, kids can be apprehensive about school: The tests, going up to the front of the room to talk in front of others, raising hands and giving an answer, working out a new math problem, or writing down big vocabulary words.

With the way our instructors use integrity, compassion and trust to learn to swim, children become confident that they can be successful in doing something new and something they may have been apprehensive about. Once kids find their confidence, the sky's the limit!

Concentration

With classrooms full of 20 or more other children, it's no wonder staying focused can be a bit tricky for kids. There are lots of other things going on to distract them and it can take some time to become used to clearing out the other distractions.

We teach our swimmers how to instinctively tune out what's going on elsewhere and concentrate on what they are supposed to be doing so they can have the best experience possible. They become focused on learning their swim skills and being thrilled about their own accomplishments learning that concentrating really does make a difference.

Following Directions

Sometimes students start swimming lessons when they already "know" how to swim (just as they may already "know" how they're supposed to complete a school assignment). But we teach children the building blocks of swimming skills and put them together with things to do to be safer in and around the water. They follow directions in the pool, producing extraordinary results seeing first hand the positive outcome and practice staying on task.

Taking Turns

At Aquatots, we limit the number of kids allowed in each class. Kids become excited to show off their skills, but learn to wait until it's their turn to take off in the water. The more opportunities they have to learn patience, the easier it is to incorporate into other areas of their life like school.