Any activity your child wants to commit to, you want to make sure is adding value to their life in some way - Are they having fun? Are they learning? Are they growing?
It’s hard to know what will suit your child before they try it, but if your child has asked to join a swim team, we have some benefits on swim teams for kids that may help with your decision.
City of Derby swimmer Greg Butler could well be the fastest breaststroke swimmer under the age of fourteen with two stunning performances at the ASA National Short Course Winter Championships recently. The young athlete broke records in the 100m and 200m breaststroke events at the competition in Sheffield's Pond Forge swimming pool...
Four members of the Tavistock Swimming Club (Devon) attended their first national-level competition in Sheffield recently. The atmosphere at a large swimming event is something to be witnessed, there is nothing else quite like it and lads thoroughly enjoyed themselves. They got to mix with medallists and top UK athletes at the event where several British records were broken.
In this article from Swimming World magazine, Wayne Goldsmith and Helen Morris present questions that every swimming parent has probably asked. You see them every day. They are everywhere. At every pool. Every swim meet. Every school swimming practice. There they are. Sitting at the side of the pool. Watching every lap. Counting every breath. Analyzing every stroke. Studying every move you make...
In the blog, dedicated swim mum Lisy McKinnon lists her 25 personal confessions, giving us a little insight into her life as a competitive swimming mum. Things like "I alternate between wishing that I could just lead a normal life without all the responsibilities of raising an athlete and being terrified that eventually I will be forced to lead a normal life without athletes who need me and I won’t know who I am if I’m not an athlete’s mom."
After thirty-three full years of observation, it has occurred to me that some parents must internally delight in the idea of sabotaging their child's swim career. They must for some perverse reason WANT to do this, since they work so incredibly hard at it and are so remarkably successful. Hereafter, my top ten list of means and methods. (And more seriously, some clear examples on positive alternatives)....
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