About Us and Baby SwimmingJulie-ann James | Aquababies Franchise Family
Aquakiddies/Babies | Baby Swimming
We aim to provide excellent baby swimming classes for babies and toddlers based on the Aquakiddies/Babies baby swimming program. We offer friendly, efficient administrative & customer service and are always happy to help you find the best available baby swimming courses.
We hope to be the first call for toddler and baby swimming in the areas in which we operate. We offer reasonably priced, good quality, flexible baby swimming courses. Adults will learn how to teach their children to swim correctly and children will learn the foundations of future swimming, water safety and confidence techniques in a safe and clean environment.
Philosophy and Baby Swimming Teaching Methods
Our baby swimming lessons develop strength, stamina and agility. Through correct training babies can learn to respect and love the water, happily swimming above and under the water.
All babies are born with the natural ability to hold their breath underwater. This is known as the "mammalian diving response". This natural reflex is not something we rely on we would prefer to teach the children to hold their breath in a relaxed manner this forms part of the Aquakiddies/Babies baby swimming class structure in order to help your child gain confidence in the water.
From as young as 6 weeks, babies can begin breath holding exercises using word association, thus learning to control their natural instinct to hold their breath when their faces make contact with water.
It is important for a child to enjoy their baby swimming classes and to feel that the experience is fun, so our classes are taught with the emphasis on playing and training at the same time.
Our mother and baby swimming classes are designed to educate not only the child but the parent too. We understand the importance of your role and therefore each one of our swimming lesson for babies will educate you, the parent/carer, in the correct method of teaching baby to swim. Aside from the obvious comfort your child will gain from having you there at class time, you will both be able to enjoy the benefits of baby swimming lessons when not in the class environment.
We do use buoyancy aids as teaching aids like floats and noodles but prefer not to use armbands in our baby swimming courses. We feel that continual use of these can create a false sense of security and confidence in the water and children who have become reliant on these aids, then need to be re-taught without these aids. Recent statistics show that nearly 500 babies drown each year, often in very shallow water. The ultimate goal of Aquakiddies/Babies is to teach baby swimming so that babies will be water-safe. This means that an Aquakiddies/Babies child will learn to find the safety of the poolside unaided.
However we also work hard to make baby swimming an enjoyable experience for all.