My dd1 is 4. We take her swimming and she moves about with arm bands on but she's nowhere near to being able to swim (keeo herself afloat) unaided.
I need to enrol her in lessons. We have a public leisure centre near us where the lessons are supposed to be good. But they make the enrolment process so bloody difficult. They run lessons in 14 week blocks. Enrolment takes place during one set week. If you're not already enrolled, you have to hope they have places and go through the enrolment process anyway, just to get on the waiting list.
Alternatively, there is a woman near to us who has a private pool who offers lessons in very small groups at £10 per week (half an hour)
It's more than I would like to pay but if it were only for a limited time, I wouldn't mind.
Would it be abnormal to use the private lessons to get dd1 swimming unaided. And then once she is swimming unaided, we would regularly go to the public swimming pool with her and dd2.
All advice and opinions welcome.
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Are private swimming lessons worth the extra cost for a non-swimming 4 year old?
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Aderyn · 10/01/2007 09:40
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