Water Parenting

Your baby's introduction to water, from the first bath to the first visit to a beach or a swimming pool, should be one of fun and happiness: early experience provides the foundation for the development of invaluable aquatic skills. In this new book, expert baby swimming instructor Francoise Babira Freedman offers a practical guide to the essential early practices of aquatic development, from birth to the fourth year. Inspired by the gentle parenting practices of the Amazon, where children are not 'taught to swim', but rather encouraged to experiment and discover buoyancy and movement in the water, Water Parenting gives parents the information and practical skills to introduce the foundations of swimming to their children.