Veronika Aretz

Adjusting to the Water: Swimming for Kids Veronika Aretz

This book is especially for parents and grandparents, but instructors of small groups can also benefit from the valuable educational tips. Simple exercises help the child to overcome their fear and begin adjusting to the water - at the same time, the over 120 exercises are also great fun. The pictures are mostly self-explanatory; one glance is all you need to carry out the exercise.
Cut out the pages along the dashed line and laminate the sheets - to make teaching your children to swim an effortless and stress-free experience.

What to expect from this book: Suitable from 4 years oldGames in the shower and in the shallow pool where the child can touch the bottomFun stories and exercises for warming upSimple balancing exercises with pool noodle, kickboard, or balloonInformation on gliding, underwater work, and jumping from the pool edgeTips for ideal body position in breaststroke, crawl, and backstrokeWith lots of colorful illustrations and descriptive textsOther editions of Swimming for Kids:
1: Adjusting to the Water
2: Underwater Work
3: Breaststroke
4: Crawl
5: Backstroke
6: Atoms Game & Warm Up
7: Jumping
8: Games in Water
9: Bathing Rules
10: Theory: 15 tips for a good swim lesson
11: Swimming course
Special Edition (many new, but also exercises from Swimming for Kids 1 to 7):
12 Pool Noodles

Dive into these exercises together and help your child learn to swim. Find out how to help them overcome their fear of water - they will be a little fish in no time! Take advantage of the experience of numerous swim instructors, who focus in this edition on bathing fun and water adjustment. Overcome a child's fears with play and show them that swimming is just great. Let them feel the water's resistance and learn to take advantage of it.
Teach children to swim: The ideal age is around five years. Initially, it is not about gaining a badge and swimming perfectly, but about adjusting to the water and becoming familiar with it. Body control and motor skills for learning to swim only reach maturity when the child can ride a bicycle without training wheels. Playing around in the water means positive experiences during development. When introduced cautiously and with games, the child builds self-confidence as many of the exercises are easier in water than on land.

Digital-swim-coach has been active in German-speaking countries since 2009, initially in published form but more recently in an easier-to-handle digital format. The material has been compiled, tested, and assessed by specialists from different fields. The multi-part series contains over 800 exercises with over 1300 illustrations.