Kids Swimming Lessons: Blow Bubbles

Video Transcript

"In this section I'll be talking to you about step number two to do with a child when you're teaching them how to swim. And, that's going to be blowing bubbles, and as simple as blowing bubbles may look, the reason why is because you don't want to quickly tell them to hold their breath and put their head in the water. Some kids will do it- generally from what I've experienced over a thousand kids that I've taught, typically about 99.9 percent of them will not just quickly put their head under water, unless they've already done a lesson and they've gotten up to that point. When you initially start with someone whether it's a child, an adult, a teenager you just want to tell them blow some bubbles in the water, you know, and get their mouth touching the water. Maybe tell them to really blow a lot of bubbles and if they put their nose in the water to hold their breath, and you know blow a little bit of air out of their nose. So just, and you'll just blow that water out of, blow the air out of the mouth so. In this step, we're, it's a continuation of step two, which is blowing bubbles. And, the reason why you want to blow bubbles instead of having them just hold their breath is because you want them to get used to the water, instead of scaring them. So, it's very simple, just have them blow bubbles like that and any age it really doesn't matter, just have them blow as many bubbles as they can, and just have them do it for a while. And, the more that they do it, try to do positive reinforcement and have them kind of, you know, maybe put their head a little bit more into the water."