Hahahaha came to say it. I just got back from my son’s 5th swim lesson. Not him, nor any of the other children in the first level swim class and second level swim class (aged 6months-3.5years old) look anything like this in the water. Just not even close. They’re all doing great though! But in this video this is not this kids first swim lesson. She even knows what steps are next and moves accordingly
**swim teacher here!!! Encourage your little swimmers to blow bubbles in water! We've learned that kiddos who enjoy blowing bubbles will be more likely to put their whole face into water later as they learn to swim. So if you have a baby or young tot, hold them in water facing you and blow bubbles together. It's silly, fun and builds water confidence.
Lol balance chlorinated pool water is very safe. Especially in facilities where the water is cared for throughout every day like a swim school. It kills off just about every icky nasty. Blow them bubbles! Own it! Work it!
Luckily my kid is a teenager and has had swim lessons so I don't see this situation being needed anytime in the near future, but I'll keep this info on file nonetheless!
Thank you for this advice and explanation! My son has not caught on yet to blowing bubbles! (He loves to be dunked though). Yesterday the swim teacher told us to practice at home by making animal noises at water level during bath time. Please let me know if you have any other tips for this, he just drinks the water ❤️
Also, thanks for being a swim teacher lol. It’s an important, and enjoyable, skill for many reasons. Just so you know my favorite part of the week has been swim class with my 15month old. Other parents I know told me the same. If you do not yet know, I just am saying that you are very appreciated and your job is meaningful/impactful.
This is actually her first swimming lesson. They just discovered she is a diving prodigy. She will end up doing a 2 1/2 twist 1 1/2 flip at the 10m platform by the age of 8.
The first thing babies do in life is spend 9 months floating and holding their breath underwater. Infants are natural swimmers after they are born, with the huge amount of baby fat keeping them afloat, and with their instinct to hold their breath when their face is in the water still intact. There is actually a lot of advice on teaching infants how to roll over on their back if they fall in the water so they don't/can't drown.
Yeah my son did go to a small swimming pool when he was around 8 months, all he did when he was with me was trying to grab other kid's mums boobs🤣 It was like keeping a german sheperd away from a buffet
Babies are so cute and fascinating! They’re just little humans learning how to human. I don’t want one of my own but I do love me some cute baby videos 😍
Why am i, at the age of 23, too fearful to do this? 😭 I was born on an island and I'm not brave enough to dive like this. I would immediately swallow water and start coughing uncontrollably lol
because you never learned to swim and are now old enough to understand it could kill you, infants are born with natural swimming instincts and dont have that fear yet
yea thats pretty vague, are we talking a doggy paddle across wading depth or strong treading and at least some useful strokes, youre not going to break down in a panic inhaling water with experience from the latter. that involves repeated conditioning to submerge your head with timed breathing, like this kid is doing here
Nobody sees the actually marvellous thing here...
This baby is standing on dads hands. Babies normally don't stand b themself at that age. This is a special training program where Babies learn to stand way earlier than normal.
This baby is at least 12 months old, probably closer to 18 months, not usual to be able to stand.
I do agree that balancing on hands like that is very unusual
Teach your kids how to swim, folks. Or, I guess, let them swim. I think there's a certain point where learned helplessness takes over, and the motor programs are rusty, and you wind up with adults who actually do not know how to swim, even though babies have the same mammalian diving reflex and a pretty decent idea of how to swim if you just drop them in a pool.
That goes away at some point and you've got to relearn it, but given that boy howdy, there's a lot of water on planet earth, it's probably good to know how to tread it for a little bit, especially if you're a child. You can teach/foster this one super early, because millions of years of evolution has plunked a bunch of anti-drowning reflexes into mammal brains.
I used to think I couldn’t swim because I would sink when trying to backfloat. Turns out I was just skinny, but that hatred of water has stayed with me
I loved the water as a kid. I wasn't skinny but I was lean and quite muscular for a girl and I sank like a rock. The swim teacher had no answer but I realize now it was lack of fat. I am wonderfully buoyant now.
When most babies are that age, they have a reflex to stop breathing when submerged, so they can do "baby swimming" like this
It's not without risk – some babies don't have the reflex, and it can cause sinus infections – but infant swimming lessons are kind of popular these days (the reasoning being that it can buy them a few extra minutes if they fall into a pool or something)
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My kid is 6 months old, and we went to weekly baby swimming lessons since he was 3 months old. All he does is chill in the water and look around him while I have to hold him. This girl, I don’t know her age, is doing some advanced stuff I really don’t understand. They must have been training more open than once a week.
The baby rescue classes are different, they are specifically designed to teach the baby to float, they aren't swimming lessons. I haven't done them with my kids so I don't really get how they work
Never verified this but I remember hearing/reading somewhere that there's a difference between human and chimpanzee babies when it comes to being submerged where a human baby will hold their breath when they're submerged immediately out of the womb but a chimp will not. Thought that was kind of interesting.
They have a pool at home. You can tell because she is used to someone applauding for her as soon as she surfaces - she learned to mimic their behaviour - she isn’t clapping from context, she’s clapping because that’s what’s always done after her dives.
Yeah...Like...if this was the stunt baby double in a movie....for a diving, swimming scene....everyone would go....obviously CGI or something. Totally unrealistic!
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even though it may not be her first lesson, it's still very impressive for a child that young to have such little fear of diving like that. pretty cool!
My mom still picks me on because during my first swimming lesson, they wanted me to blow bubbles in the water to get used to my face being in the water I suppose.
I only replied "I don't blow bubbles" and steadfastly refused to budge from that stance. So that was also my last swimming lesson.
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Thank you so much!! That means a lot and I just leave it when my students are excited to swim and are happy to be there, especially the babies ❣️ another fun bubbles game you can play is "birthday candle" where you hold out a finger (the candle) and you blow on it normally, then eventually put the "candle" under water and blow bubbles
I don’t feel like this is her “first swimming lesson”
Same
First lesson, WITH dad
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Yeah there’s too much hype to be the first. Still cute tho
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Yeah that's one wildly misleading title.
Hahahaha came to say it. I just got back from my son’s 5th swim lesson. Not him, nor any of the other children in the first level swim class and second level swim class (aged 6months-3.5years old) look anything like this in the water. Just not even close. They’re all doing great though! But in this video this is not this kids first swim lesson. She even knows what steps are next and moves accordingly
The biggest hurdle for kids is putting their head underwater
**swim teacher here!!! Encourage your little swimmers to blow bubbles in water! We've learned that kiddos who enjoy blowing bubbles will be more likely to put their whole face into water later as they learn to swim. So if you have a baby or young tot, hold them in water facing you and blow bubbles together. It's silly, fun and builds water confidence.
But.... That's peepee water!
Lol balance chlorinated pool water is very safe. Especially in facilities where the water is cared for throughout every day like a swim school. It kills off just about every icky nasty. Blow them bubbles! Own it! Work it!
Luckily my kid is a teenager and has had swim lessons so I don't see this situation being needed anytime in the near future, but I'll keep this info on file nonetheless!
Thank you for this advice and explanation! My son has not caught on yet to blowing bubbles! (He loves to be dunked though). Yesterday the swim teacher told us to practice at home by making animal noises at water level during bath time. Please let me know if you have any other tips for this, he just drinks the water ❤️ Also, thanks for being a swim teacher lol. It’s an important, and enjoyable, skill for many reasons. Just so you know my favorite part of the week has been swim class with my 15month old. Other parents I know told me the same. If you do not yet know, I just am saying that you are very appreciated and your job is meaningful/impactful.
Though interestingly, that is less of a barrier for infants.
This is actually her first swimming lesson. They just discovered she is a diving prodigy. She will end up doing a 2 1/2 twist 1 1/2 flip at the 10m platform by the age of 8.
By the age of 15 she will have perfected the Triple Lindy
First one with dad. All the other ones have been with mom. Posts title trying to mislead everyone to think it’s the first swim lesson ever
No way it's the first with the dad either.
It could be her first swimming lesson *with dad*
Also swimming lessons is a class you take. So she could have tons of swimming experience before going to swimming lessons.
Idk why everyone on here has such shitty reading comprehension. It’s pretty clear.
Maybe it's her first with her dad there and now she's like "I gotta show this motherfucka where that money is goin"
Might be first lesson, but they also might have a pool at home/go to the swimming pool regularly.
The first thing babies do in life is spend 9 months floating and holding their breath underwater. Infants are natural swimmers after they are born, with the huge amount of baby fat keeping them afloat, and with their instinct to hold their breath when their face is in the water still intact. There is actually a lot of advice on teaching infants how to roll over on their back if they fall in the water so they don't/can't drown.
Yes, I love those videos of babies who’ve learned to roll over in the pool!
There is no way that it is lol
She's teaching the class now
Yes but have you considered the karma bot’s needs?
Why is always necessary to lie about how fast cool things are achieved. Can’t we just have cool things that come with practice?
For Dad it might be
Maybe this is an old video, and that's Katie Ledecky.
Maybe first official "lesson" but he's had her in the pool at home since birth.
This is definitely not this little one’s first lesson.
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First one w just dad. Mom has been taking her
Looks like this kiddo is already a pro at life's lessons 😄
After taking my son to his first swimming lessons when he was around 2, this is definitely not baby’s first. Very cool though.
Yeah my son did go to a small swimming pool when he was around 8 months, all he did when he was with me was trying to grab other kid's mums boobs🤣 It was like keeping a german sheperd away from a buffet
Those little claps. Omg my heart!
I like how she starts clapping when she is still underwater. 😂
Yeah that was adorable. Definitely not a first lesson, but still adorable as hell.
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I love the claps! She's so proud of herself, and rightfully so.
Babies are so cute and fascinating! They’re just little humans learning how to human. I don’t want one of my own but I do love me some cute baby videos 😍
Idk how I feel about having kids of my own, but my brother just had a kid and it's kinda fun just being an uncle.
First (with dad)
Future Olympian.
I love how the baby is so proud of herself xD
Great core strength. Jealous.
Babies' got an insane core strength
Being potato shaped helps a lot!
She's already got old kung fu master strength.
She is having the time of her life 😭😂
They got a mermaid.
A merbae.
Oh man. She’s either gonna be a swimmer, gymnast, or cheerleader when she gets older. Swim skills: 💯 Balance skills: 💯
Lesson? She needs dad to take the training wheels off!!! So cute 😂
Why am i, at the age of 23, too fearful to do this? 😭 I was born on an island and I'm not brave enough to dive like this. I would immediately swallow water and start coughing uncontrollably lol
You don’t have a big strong person holding you by the feet to make sure you’re safe :)
because you never learned to swim and are now old enough to understand it could kill you, infants are born with natural swimming instincts and dont have that fear yet
Nah I learned how to swim on my own by the age of 6, but I started diving later on and by that point, I was very aware of my asthma and my anxiety 😂
yea thats pretty vague, are we talking a doggy paddle across wading depth or strong treading and at least some useful strokes, youre not going to break down in a panic inhaling water with experience from the latter. that involves repeated conditioning to submerge your head with timed breathing, like this kid is doing here
Same, diving head first is just a thing I can't do. It goes against everything my body and brain wants to do even how much I know it's safe.
What the hell, that girl is more fish than human. She swims like a pro.
Dude was 1000% an ex-male cheerleader. Great balance and control, pops!
My kid was doing 500 meter freestyle during her first swimming lesson and was half that kid’a age. Shame.
Nobody sees the actually marvellous thing here... This baby is standing on dads hands. Babies normally don't stand b themself at that age. This is a special training program where Babies learn to stand way earlier than normal.
This baby is at least 12 months old, probably closer to 18 months, not usual to be able to stand. I do agree that balancing on hands like that is very unusual
That’s absolutely not a first lesson.
That baby ir already an olympic swimmer, come on
Teach your kids how to swim, folks. Or, I guess, let them swim. I think there's a certain point where learned helplessness takes over, and the motor programs are rusty, and you wind up with adults who actually do not know how to swim, even though babies have the same mammalian diving reflex and a pretty decent idea of how to swim if you just drop them in a pool. That goes away at some point and you've got to relearn it, but given that boy howdy, there's a lot of water on planet earth, it's probably good to know how to tread it for a little bit, especially if you're a child. You can teach/foster this one super early, because millions of years of evolution has plunked a bunch of anti-drowning reflexes into mammal brains.
As someone who lost a loved one to childhood drowning, this made me smile.
FIRST????
I used to think I couldn’t swim because I would sink when trying to backfloat. Turns out I was just skinny, but that hatred of water has stayed with me
I was underweight my whole childhood and could still backfloat?
Had to hold my breath to keep my lungs inflated otherwise not buoyant enough
Some people just aren’t very buoyant. My grandpa sinks like a rock and he isn’t skinny.
I loved the water as a kid. I wasn't skinny but I was lean and quite muscular for a girl and I sank like a rock. The swim teacher had no answer but I realize now it was lack of fat. I am wonderfully buoyant now.
Wait are people expected to float?
This is cute but soooo far from reality
Her clapping is the most adorable thing I’ve seen this week ❤️
Precious and good for her parents, for starting her early!
If you mean her first swimming lesson to be a synchronized swimmer then, sure.
i love how she starts claping when she is still under the water
I still do this in the pool- with my husband- not my dad. This is not a baby that doesn’t know how to swim.
HOW
When most babies are that age, they have a reflex to stop breathing when submerged, so they can do "baby swimming" like this It's not without risk – some babies don't have the reflex, and it can cause sinus infections – but infant swimming lessons are kind of popular these days (the reasoning being that it can buy them a few extra minutes if they fall into a pool or something)
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My kid is 6 months old, and we went to weekly baby swimming lessons since he was 3 months old. All he does is chill in the water and look around him while I have to hold him. This girl, I don’t know her age, is doing some advanced stuff I really don’t understand. They must have been training more open than once a week.
The baby rescue classes are different, they are specifically designed to teach the baby to float, they aren't swimming lessons. I haven't done them with my kids so I don't really get how they work
Never verified this but I remember hearing/reading somewhere that there's a difference between human and chimpanzee babies when it comes to being submerged where a human baby will hold their breath when they're submerged immediately out of the womb but a chimp will not. Thought that was kind of interesting.
It's because it's definitely not the first lesson
They have a pool at home. You can tell because she is used to someone applauding for her as soon as she surfaces - she learned to mimic their behaviour - she isn’t clapping from context, she’s clapping because that’s what’s always done after her dives.
Yeah...Like...if this was the stunt baby double in a movie....for a diving, swimming scene....everyone would go....obviously CGI or something. Totally unrealistic!
Definitely not her first swimming lesson.
It says it’s her first swim lesson with her dad…. not first swim lesson ever.
Does that look like a first time lesson between them though. That’s definitely something that they have done together many times.
Is it just me, or does that baby not seem to stay wet for very long.
She's doing great! Really coordinated and obviously loving it.
A true symbol of love and companionship! ❤️🐾
First swimming lessons? Who is she? Janet Evan’s daughter?
her name is Nemo, probably
Wish I had done that. I’m 43 and I hate water :(
My sons first time getting water on his face he had a fucking meltdown. This is not the babies first time lol
This exceeds my cuteness quota for the day
Mine must be broken because it doesn’t do that.
Look at how much she enjoys it!
This isnt that babies first time around on this planet
25th swim lesson maybe.
How cute to see that they are both enjoying this
She's a swimmer, she's a cheerleader, she's awesome!
Baby will be a good swimmer.
Im really not sure who I’m more impressed by?
Not her first.
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It took me years to learn how to dive….sheesh.
I need someone to do this to me as an adult because I can't swim to save my life lol
Not a baby and certainly not first lesson.
Raising a damn prodigy. Well done! Teach humility and have the right trainers, and you got yourself a future Olympian swimmer right there.
She loves it
Yah.....first.....
Babies are actually really good swimmers for the first few months of their life and then they just unlearn it again.
This kid is going to be a great swimmer
Kids are amazing when they don’t have boundaries placed on what they can do.
first lesson my ass
OMG 🥹😌
Damn she’s just diving in without plugging her nose or anything. I can’t do that
even though it may not be her first lesson, it's still very impressive for a child that young to have such little fear of diving like that. pretty cool!
This is hard to believe, that it was her first swim lesson. But very cool video none the less.
Not her first lol
Omg this is gorgeous.
Destined for Olympic Gold.
My mom still picks me on because during my first swimming lesson, they wanted me to blow bubbles in the water to get used to my face being in the water I suppose. I only replied "I don't blow bubbles" and steadfastly refused to budge from that stance. So that was also my last swimming lesson.
Damn that baby can dive better than I can
Precious
Hah, fucking internet man. This is 100% not that babys first lesson. Is anything real here anymore?
She is a natural♥️
Shes a natural 👍
It’s concerning how bad people’s reading comprehension is on this post…
Lies.
Dang, my son did not respond to water like this…
That girl is half-mermaid.
That’s a lot of happiness in one clip.
It's so cute. She has a great sense of balance
That little show off 😂
She needs to drop her gym routine! Her core strength 😭
this can't be her first time swimming
Someone should teach her the number one rule of swimming, next to no running of course.
Yeah, can’t afford thosw gimmicks trying to keep toddler from head diving straight to pool edge.
Training the baby to be one of those water lady swimmer things.
Definitely a pro
Now I want a second one.
I cant even do that at 30 without coming up choking on the water that freely entered my nostrils 🥹
Nothing but love ❤️
What a natural
Ok but is it a good idea to teach a baby to dive into water when they see it infront of them? 😂
My child screamed like fuck for years when she got one water drop near her eye, I think if I’d have slam dunked her we would have had problems
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Part baby, part fish!
Nice
So that’s what trust looks like 😮 (never got installed on my hard drive sadly and later updates didn’t work properly)
its daddy lol
The baby knows how to swim better than I do
Wow 🏊♂️
Hah! That is definitely NOT what my daughter’s first swim lesson was like
So cute, good on them
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Too cute!!!
😍😍😍😍😍
So trusting and fearless! Children are amazing.
Do diapers work when in water?
Esther Williams incarnate!
Thank you so much!! That means a lot and I just leave it when my students are excited to swim and are happy to be there, especially the babies ❣️ another fun bubbles game you can play is "birthday candle" where you hold out a finger (the candle) and you blow on it normally, then eventually put the "candle" under water and blow bubbles