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I started writing the SwimSchoolBob blog a few years ago, experimenting with sharing some thoughts that wandered through my mind in my day-to-day life as a husband,  parent of eight, swim teacher, small business owner and a reader of a wide variety of stuff (Kathy says “junk”). The response has been so great that we are moving the blog to a legitimate, full-blown but not too fancy

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To keep your children safe around water, start outside the pool!!! Safe Kids reports that in 63% of drowning cases, the victims entered the pool through an open or unlatched gate! If you have a pool or even are at a party or visiting a home with a pool, you need to ensure that the pool gate is locked. Do not count on the host to confirm that the gate is locked. If you are at home with a

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I posted a photo on my Facebook page last week of myself with our 5th daughter as she headed off to her high school prom. It prompted me to think that I had been sending kids off to proms over three decades. Whew, that is a lot of great memories. This week I was reflecting on that experience, as I heard a young couple discuss the stress that they were feeling with an eighteen-month-old

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How many times have you sat down at a table in a restaurant and the fresh faced waiter or waitress comes over and says …. “Hello, I am Tracy and I will be serving you tonight”? Often times, that is information that passes in one ear and out the other.  No eye contact by either the waiter or yourself. On the other hand how do you feel when you walk into a place and to quote the old Cheers TV

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Welcome to the New Year. Honestly have had a bit of writer’s block over the past few months, ok more than a few, months. I finally found the topic to get me writing again. PLAY or, rather, the lack of it in our children’s and our own lives! Our kids are living in very structured worlds where they go to swim lessons, soccer practice, piano lessons, and after-school math tutors. Whew! I remember

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Are you a nervous swimmer? Are you among the 65% of adults who are uncomfortable if you were in water over your head? Do you swim across your pool with the idea that if you stopped swimming you would sink? Here at the swim school, we often find that when we have a nervous child, we can usually find that one of their parents is also a nervous swimmer. So here is my remedy and recommendations for

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We work hard with the young swimmers AND THEIR PARENTS all year long at our swim school. Often at this time of year, we see the kids coming back into the pool with some bad habits. MMMM, we wonder, where did they learn that? SO in an effort to keep those swimming skills up when the weather is warm and to give our parents some hints on what to do at home, we are offering up our Top Ten Tips for

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Kathy and I often chuckle about how we have learned to handle being identified as "swim lesson teachers". When asked at a party or in a meeting by someone that we have never met before, they get a strange look on their face, that seems to say "ohhh you make a living and support your family teaching swimming?" One of my favorite questions is, "and what else do you do?" I will sometimes go off

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Today as we move into a bit of the hectic days of late spring and early summer, I am looking forward with excitement to the opening of our Mesa swim school this week, the opening of our four summer sports camps in two weeks, the summer recreational swim teams and the summer energy that blows in the front doors at the indoor swim schools. As much as I am proud of our curriculum and the quality of

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What's not a big deal? Well anything really. Just got out of the water teaching today. The thought running through my mind is that parents of little ones today seem to place a lot of emphasis on success in everything their child does or attempts. And if the swim lesson or tumble gym class does not go well, the parent puts too much blame on themselves. They seem to think they are failing somehow

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Here at the swim school we have advocated for years that swim lessons are a major layer of protection in preventing drowning. We work very hard to teach a child that there will be a consequence for stepping off the edge of the pool. They will go under water! Now I personally have two, yes two, major resources that support this theory. In a recent blog, we reported on the results of the brand new

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FINALLY, we are beginning to have some research that supports what many of us in the Learn to Swim world have believed for years. Swim Lessons do impact a child's behavior and are a factor in the fight against children drowning. The National Institutes of Health have released a study that states: "Providing very young children with swimming lessons appears to have a protective effect against

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I spent some time last week with a pretty impressive 7th grader named Max. I got to know Max when he and his sister first started at our swim school several years ago. Max is in a new middle school this year but as a sixth grader he was president of the student body for his grade school. Remember, I said president of the entire school not just his class. Max and some of his friends and parents

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(apologies to Charles M. Schulz)Are you a "five second rule" parent? Are you a "scan the area, wipe it off and feed it to your child" parent? Or are you a "it touched the floor and it will never touch your mouth" parent!I grew up in a hectic, 7 kids within 10 years of each other, loving household in Brooklyn in the 50's and 60's. My mom and dad were a nurse and a surgeon, respectively. They were

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Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Day. Tomorrow, fifty-one years after Dr. King's famous I Have A Dream speech, we will inaugurate our first president of color. I am going to steal from an email I received from one of Kathy's cousins, who today generated a message that does an excellent job in placing Martin Luther King's speech in the historical context, plus he included a copy of the speech

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I had never heard about Nick Scandone until I read his obituary last week in the New York Times. His story represents so much of what we value in athletics. He was an elite athlete competing in sailing at the Olympic level when he was diagnosed with ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.Wikipedia describes the disease as a disorder that causes muscle weakness and atrophy throughout

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As we enter the new year, many people sit down and reflect on the year passed and the days ahead. Often times these type of reflections take the perspective of what can I do to better myself personally this coming year. Exercise more. Watch less television. Be more diligent and not procrastinate. Get organized. Keep my closets more organized, and on and on and on.Today, I would like to encourage

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Today I have copied a note from our son, Patrick. He has his version of an email blog/newsletter and I thought he hit a pretty good note. So, here are his thoughts on Christmas Memories:'Tis The Season to be CrazySo in the spirit of the holiday season and seeing that the last blog I wrote was about how much I adore Thanksgiving, I figure now is a good time to talk a little bit about my experience

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Do you want to just BE or are you ready to do the work to BECOME?I was at a swim school conference a few weeks ago and one of the speakers, I believe it was John Chappelear, author of The Daily Six, who asked the above question. His point was that many people in our society today want to BE someone or something. They do necessarily want to do the work to BECOME that someone. If you google the

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We promote water safety all of the time at our swim schools. Our primary focus has been sharing the message of the Safer 3 with our friends at the swim school and their families. One of components of the Safer 3 has been a Safer Response to learn CPR. Now amazing news from the Phoenix Fire Department. Our local newspaper, The Arizona Republic is reporting that based upon a fire department study

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Why, you may ask is he thinking of Lincoln's Gettysburg address today. I was recently at the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference and Bill Reichert of Garage Technology Ventures, one of the speakers, remarked that Wednesday, November 19th was the 145th anniversary of The Gettysburg Address. He went on to describe his experiences at The Lincoln Memorial In Washington, DC. Bill talked about standing

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One of the things I marvel at every holiday season is how conflicted and exhausted parents of young families often become over where and how to spend their holiday time. There are the families that spend Thanksgiving with one set of parents and Christmas with another. Or even the families that spend half a day with each family driving hours and hours with tired crabby kids in order to not offend

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We are moving toward Thanksgiving, a time of year when we hopefully find some time to reflect on the many good things in our lives. It can be hard in times of emotional or financial turmoil to find the good in the world. I have been asked recently how I would suggest teaching gratitude to a young child.Well. I have bad news for someone looking for a list of training exercises you can do

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Enjoy the plateau It is an important step in a long processA Plateau is defined as: a period or state of little or no growth or decline, a period of little or no apparent progress in an individual's learning, marked by an inability to increase speed, reduce number of errors, etc., and indicated by a horizontal stretch in a learning curve or graph. As children progress though our swim lesson or

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The Value of Teammates after the Glory is GoneThe New York Marathon is coming up soon. Running a marathon is a great experience. It tests your physical and emotional condition no matter your level of fitness. Having run three (3) marathons, I hold a great deal of respect for anyone who can complete the 26.2 miles, no matter how fast. Over the years, I have heard all kinds of reasons for a child

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Something might happen!! Today's parents of infants and toddlers seem obsessed with safety. We see kids in our lobbies and at the malls wrapped so tightly in their strollers with neck rollers and five point harnesses, that they would be safe in a NASCAR car crash. Is the average parent afraid they are going to lose their child's stroller going over a 100 foot cliff?I have picked up in our lobby

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How often do we pause in the middle of our busy days, check our watch and calculate the time til all our chores are done? Hurry up, Move it, I'm Late, Let's Go, I've Got A Lot To Do! What would happen if we perfectly planned our day, nothing happened to throw us off and we relaxed and enjoyed the moment as we pursued our activities? Studies show us that it would be an amazingly excellent day! If

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Elizabeth, age 1 month; age 2 monthsLast Saturday, we had a great experience at our swim school. We hosted a four hour presentation from New Directions Institute on Infant Brain Development. It was awesome and challenging at the same time. Awesome because it ratified many of the things we believe infant swimming provides to a child. Challenging because it highlighted how quickly an infant's brain

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Often times, especially as we raise our children, we fall back on old reasons for activities we have the children do. They ask "Why do I have to do that?" and parents answer, "because I told you so." In our swim school world, when a parent asks, "Why start swim lessons at such a young age?" we could list safety statistics about childhood drownings or breached barriers until the parents' eyes

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When Dick Rosenthal retired as athletic director in 1995 after a lifetime of service to the University of Notre Dame, he was asked about the most memorable story of his tenure. Without hesitation, the chief of sports at America's most storied university replied, "Haley Scott."Haley was an excellent swimmer from the Phoenix area who had gone on from Xavier College Prep to swim for the Fighting

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image courtesy of amazon.comOne of my favorite books is Once A Runner by John L. Parker. It is the fictional story of a collegiate runner, Quentin Cassidy, a senior at a mythical Southeastern University. It follows the evolution of his running as he moves from the slightly under achieving collegiate miler to someone who becomes engrossed in his pursuit of running a sub four (4) minute mile. It is

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Does this picture make you nervous? If so, read on.Various reports say that sixty-five (65%) percent of adults are uncomfortable in deep water. Here at the swim school, we can pick out these parents instantly by their body language. While their children laugh and play in the water, these parents are curled up in a fetal position or hunched over in their chairs. Hands clenched, ankles crossed,

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Who, you might ask, is Abby Wambach? Why does she deserve our praise? For those of you who may not be fans of women's soccer, let me tell you a little about Abby Wambach. She was a leader and one of the best players on the U.S. team as they prepared for the Olympics in Beijing. In the team's last game before leaving for China, Abby was going for the ball and wound up colliding with a player from

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Sometimes I meet parents who are exasperated by ALL of the effort that raising children requires. You can see it in their eyes or hear it in their voices - they have that “I-never-realized-what-a-more-than-full-time-commitment-this-child-rearing-is” look about them. They've got the “we have no time for ourselves” woes. While I'm not sure I can offer any solace, or tell them it's going to get any

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do you 'hover' over your kids too much?I received the following inquiry after one of our initial blogs:I am a Mom of a boy who is 3 ½ and a daughter who just turned 2. I have a recent struggle in my parenting in that I think that I might be doing my kids a great disservice by playing and interacting with them so much. I just love to play with them - that's what I do to engage them. I have been a

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We have a bulletin board at the swim school where we share some of the funny things we hear, or emails we receive from various sources. The phrases below made me reflect on my parenting skills. Actually, initially they made me laugh, and then I realized that I have used almost all of them in my 34 years of parenting. Results have varied in effectiveness.Do you find yourself using any of the

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Kathy and I with all of the grandkids...two more on the way!Dear Bob,As an older father (50) of two young boys (9 & 7), I am constantly seeking advice and pointers. Any suggestions on staying 'young' for my kids? Respectfully, SteveDear Steve -As a 56-year-old father of two 14-year-olds and a grandfather to seven kids under 7, my advice to you would be to stay healthy and fight to be engaged in

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Many people erroneously perceive floaties to be tools that help children learn to swim. I believe they do the exact opposite, and work against anything a child has ever learned in a swim lesson. these flotation devices teach kids to operate in the water in a vertical (straight up and down) position. That's great if you are running through the water or practicing your water-treading skills. But

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Occasionally, as I wander through our lobby I hear parents engaged in conversation with our staff regarding the various swim lesson or sports camp programs we offer. The parent dutifully runs through the litany of appropriate questions relating to our group sizes, the training of our staff members, the duration of the program and the pricing. And then a large percentage of them make, in my mind,

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image shot at Hubbard Swim School by Urchin Rock PhotographyTeaching your infant to swim is not only about safety!Many parents are compelled to explore the option of infant swim lessons as a direct result of the fear they have as parents of their child drowning in a family or neighbor’s pool. They don’t want to be another statistic – another family on the evening news, saying that it happened so

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The number of young children with televisions in their bedrooms has increased, according to research by the Independent Television Commission. More than one third of children under the age of four, thirty-six (36) percent have a television in their bedroom, with fourteen (14) percent having a video recorder as well.In a March 2008 article by Tara Parker-Pope, the NY Times reported in their Health

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In addition to being a father of eight, I am also a huge proponent of breast-feeding. Not for all of the obvious physical changes in my spouse. Not for the money we saved on formula. Not because I got to sleep through the night as often times I was the one who went to get the baby and then was nudged awake with a foot in the back to tell me it was time to return the baby to the crib.Groups such

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As a parent of 8 very different children, and as the oldest of seven siblings, I find the mix of abilities among my children, brothers and sisters to be fascinating. Some of us are smarter in areas of reading and writing. Some are smarter in the fields of science. Some are just better athletes. I am a fair athlete and voracious reader, but I have to call my oldest son and daughter-in-law for

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As I wander through life, one of the things that surprises me is the number of very attentive and involved parents who leave their children in portable plastic infant carriers all day long. Walking down the street I see parents who look like they might be permanently disfigured by hooking the handle of the child carrier in the crook of their elbow and struggling to carry their toddler safely

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Parents of newborns, you have a great opportunity to bond with your infant by taking them in the shower or the bath with you. An infant receives great tactile stimulation from water streaming over their bodies and down their faces in the shower or floating on their backs in the tub with your support. Time spent in the shower or tub will aid your child in their water acclimatization and help them

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