The benefits of early learning to swim have long been convincingly proven by doctors. Pediatricians agreed that swimming in infancy and in slightly older children:
- improves blood circulation;
- develops the lungs and helps increase their volume;
- gives a hardening effect, so “floating” infants practically do not suffer from colds;
- has a beneficial effect on the development of the musculoskeletal system.
Features of teaching babies to swim
The main condition is that learning should be enjoyable for the child. Therefore, game elements are constantly used during classes. A set of exercises is compiled for the baby, which should preserve and develop the innate swimming reflex that is initially present in every child, which gradually disappears by the third month of life. Therefore, if the time to start classes has been missed, and you have not decided to start teaching your baby to swim at such an early age, later they use a completely different technique.
A child should not feel forced during swimming lessons. If he does not want to do some exercise or is tired of being in the water, you cannot insist on continuing the activity. Both the baby and his mother should receive only positive emotions from visiting the pool. Each lesson begins with gymnastics, for which approximately half the time is allocated - 15 minutes. This is followed by a fifteen-minute swimming session.
Swimming pool "Children's Park": perfect cleanliness, safety and lots and lots of joy!
The Child Development Center "Children's Park" is a place where children of different ages and their mothers can spend useful, fun and interesting time. Our center also has a wonderful swimming pool for children up to one year old and older, in which classes are taught by competent instructors with extensive practical experience. A trainer who is himself a father of four children works with the youngest children. All instructors are very kind, friendly and charismatic; they easily manage to find an approach to the most capricious “swimmers”. Children use our pool up to the age of eight inclusive. The form of classes can be group or individual.
The pool itself complies with Russian and European standards for the design and equipment of structures of this type. It is shallow, always filled with clean water at a comfortable temperature for the child - 30-32°C. The swimming pool is subject to strict hygiene control and all areas are cleaned regularly.
By the way, now you can get a certificate for a child to go to the pool directly in the Park (this service is provided by our partner: the children’s clinic “Child”). The doctor will arrive at a certain time, take a test from the baby, and the very next day the therapist will examine the child and issue a certificate! The cost of such a service only for clients of the Children's Park is 1500 rubles 🙂!
Registration for an individual lesson with a teacher is possible with a 100% advance payment, since the teacher comes exclusively for lessons with your child and we will not be able to sign up others for this time. In case of no-show or cancellation individual lessons We leave this payment as a guarantee of payment to the teacher. You can make an advance payment in any way convenient for you (online or in our children's center cash/card).
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Swimming is useful and enjoyable. It’s just that after swimming in the pool, kids and adults feel discomfort, tightness and sometimes mild itching. TOPICREM ultra-moisturizing body milk will turn visiting the pool into pure pleasure:
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— suitable for baby and mother (free of silicones, parabens, alcohol; tested by dermatologists and pediatricians);
— convenient and practical: take 200 ml with you to the pool, 500 ml use at home for the whole family.
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Here's our list of good ones swimming pools and aqua clubs for children in Moscow
Family health center “Second Birth”
m. Volgogradsky Prospekt, Atlant swimming pool
m. Vykhino, swimming pool "Veshnyaki"
m. Petrovsko-Razumovskaya, swimming pool named after. Timiryazev
m. Fili, swimming pool in DS "Fili"
Dolgoprudny, FOC "Vodnik"
Age: from 1.5 months to 5 years
Family health center "Second Birth" specializes in preparing families for soft natural childbirth in maternity hospitals, and also teaches parents hardening methods and conducts swimming lessons for children. There are groups for infants up to 1.5 years old and groups for children. Children swim with their mothers in specially equipped pools. For example, in the pool named after. Timiryazev classes take place in a special mini-pool for infants. And in general, they tried to take into account the needs of young swimmers to the maximum: there are potties and changing tables in the locker rooms; A multi-level water purification system is used, and the temperature required for children is maintained (32-34 degrees Celsius).
Brightfamily Center for Positive Living
m. Polyanka, Tretyakovskaya
Age: from 1.5 months
The main focus of the center's work is the soft parenting practices of Birthlight, developed by anthropologist and mother of 4 children Françoise Friedman. Practices include yoga classes, as well as early swimming training and aqua yoga for pregnant women using the Birthlight method. Children go swimming with their mothers. The program offers a gentle approach and special movement and relaxation techniques that are aimed at strengthening the emotional bond between mother and child. Classes are held in a swimming pool designed specifically for children. The water temperature is maintained at 32-34 degrees. All of the center's instructors were trained in the UK and are Birthlight diploma holders.
Center "Aquatoria" children twa"
m. Volokolamskaya, swimming pool "Pearl"
Krasnogorsk district, sports center "Ilyinka Sport"
Age: from 1-2 months
The center introduces children to early swimming, starting from infancy. There are groups for infants and early swimming groups. The water temperature in the pools is maintained at 27-31 degrees. Children are treated by specialists with medical education. Among them, by the way, there are mothers of many children. Also in the “Aquatorium of Childhood” there are classes for pregnant women and baby yoga.
Aqua club “Me and my baby”
2 branches: swimming pools in Zhukovka and Medvedkovo
Age: from 2-3 weeks
Classes are held in a pool with ozonated water, in which both infants and older children can swim. You can start classes from 2-3 weeks, until babies lose their innate ability to swim - the main thing is that the umbilical cord heals. The water is heated to 32-34 degrees. If parents are not ready to start classes in the pool, aqua club specialists can be invited home and start with home water procedures with the baby.
Other club services include classes for pregnant women and educational activities for children (choreography, creative activities, gymnastics, water polo).
Children's sports and health club "Semitsvetik"
2 branches: Belyaevo metro station and Khimki city
Age: from 1.5 months
photo: Olga Tsaregorodtseva
Classes take place in a special children's bathroom measuring 5 by 10 meters and 80 centimeters deep. The water is thoroughly purified, and its temperature is maintained at a comfortable level of 32-33 degrees. As the club’s instructors promise: if you start training in months, then by the age of two, kids will be able to swim perfectly on their own. There is a branch of the Club in Khimki.
Children's swimming center "Duckling"
m. Avtozavodskaya
Age: from 2 months
Center children's swimming“Duckling” works in the swimming pool of the “Torpeda” sports and recreation complex. Kids are in the water with their parents and an experienced instructor, so no one is afraid of water here. Among the instructors of the center are Ph.D. in swimming and an infant swimming specialist with 20 years of experience. There is also a trainer - a specialist in adaptive physical culture.
The water temperature in the Duckling pool is 33 degrees, the most comfortable for children. Each lesson ends with a wellness trip to the sauna.
m. Strogino, SC "Yantar"
m. Yugo-Zapadnaya, Olympic Village, 2
Age: from 3 months
In the children's pool sports complex“Amber” babies are gently and gradually accustomed to water. The trainers use the Russian-Finnish training method: water games, counting rhymes, songs and individual exercises according to a progressive plan. At the School, I believe that this is the most effective way to improve a child’s ability to stay in the water; At the same time, the instructor monitors how their development proceeds. Interest in activities is stimulated by various floating devices - rollers, boards and toys. Each group has no more than 8 families. It is recommended that both parents attend classes.
Swimming like sports discipline appeared in Ancient Greece- this activity was included in the program physical education young Hellenes. Before this, people moved by swimming during military operations, hunting, fishing, and not for pleasure or wrestling. First official sports organization opened only in the second half of the 19th century in England. After this, swimmers' associations appeared in many other European countries. In the Russian Empire this happened in 1894. After 2 years, swimming was included in the program Olympic Games(by the way, the first in modern history). In the same century, artificial swimming pools began to be built.
The rapid growth in the popularity of swimming began in the 20th century and continues in the 21st: in almost all cities, including, of course, ours, there are sections of this sport, taught by qualified and experienced leaders. You can go swimming with early age. It’s better not to delay: the physical education program in schools often involves visiting the pool and passing standards, so it is advisable for parents to think ahead of time about making their child feel literally like a fish in water.
Swimming is one of the most useful species sports During classes, many muscle groups are trained, the condition of the spine improves (this is why doctors advise many children suffering from scoliosis to swim) and respiratory system. Swimming is a great way to combat overweight and fears, it increases flexibility, dexterity and accuracy of movements, coordination. In a word, this is an almost ideal sports discipline, useful for everyone.
How to breathe properly while swimming
Swimming is not just, roughly speaking, the use of arms and legs: it is the synchronization of many body processes, and correct breathing plays a big role in this. A person who does not know exactly how to breathe while in water loses more strength and may begin to panic and stop staying on the surface. One of the simplest but most useful rules, which is taught to everyone, young and old, is this: you need to inhale with your mouth above the surface of the water, and exhale - also with your mouth - already in the water. There is also an interesting dependence: the deeper you inhale, the longer you can stay on the surface of the water. But it is important not to fill your lungs as much as possible: excess air will create discomfort. While swimming, you should turn your head to have time to take a breath above the water. But of course, it’s better to do all this in practice under the guidance of a trainer, who will show by example how to control your breathing.
How to overcome your fear of water
Not only children, but also adults (the latter even more often) experience fear of being in water. It would seem: there is a desire to learn to swim, but panic fetters further actions... What to do? There are some tips that may be helpful. First: just be free from fear, not think that it exists at all. Second: don’t listen to those who scare you. Of course, it is not easy for sensitive children to “filter out” what adults or peers might have short-sightedly told them... Third: master exercises that help to stay on the water, for example, “Float”. The fact is that it is not the person himself who can drown: everything is to blame for the fear that this will happen. Panic paralyzes thoughts, a person can swallow water, and... Professionals also recommend learning to dive, and after that - swimming underwater with held breath. This is not so simple, but it helps greatly in reducing all worries to zero.
How to outfit your little swimmer
To practice in the pool, a child needs the necessary minimum of things: a silicone swimming cap, special swimming goggles, rubber shoes (to walk from the locker room to the shower and the pool itself), a one-piece swimsuit for girls and swimming trunks for boys. In addition, you need to remember a change of dry clothes, which the children will put on after classes. It’s a good idea to carry a terry robe with you, which quickly warms and dries the body, but you can get by with a towel. The pools have a shower: after class, the child can wash himself in it, so it is better to stock up on a washcloth and soap in a soap dish. Even for the first visit to the pool, a certificate of no contraindications from a doctor and, in some cases, sports insurance are often required.
“The fact that a baby can swim is one of the facts that confirms the limitless capabilities of a child.”(Masaru Ibuka, “After Three It’s Too Late”).
The famous Japanese teacher and psychologist Masaru Ibuka, in the book “After Three It’s Too Late” (which we wrote about), shares a sensation that occurred in 1965 at the International Conference of Women Athletes in Tokyo. Chairman Rize Dim then spoke for the first time about teaching swimming to children under one year old. Before her eyes, a five-month-old baby learned to swim in the pool in 3 months. And he could “hold out” on the water for more than 6 minutes. This was further proof that all human capabilities and talents can begin to be developed within a year.
We have selected 7 centers in Moscow where you can take your baby swimming under the guidance of a professional instructor. The selection criteria were, firstly, the experience of the center’s instructors, secondly, the characteristics of the water in the pool, and thirdly, the cost of the classes.
1. Family health center “Second Birth”(3 branches, you can choose)
Children's age: 1.5 months. – 3 years, 4-5 years
Water purification system: multi-level, with water disinfection ultraviolet light
Cost: one-time lesson with a trainer - 600 rubles, lesson in a subscription - from 500 rubles. (3 or more lessons)
2. Center for Early Development and Childbirth Preparation« Baby Dolphin» (6 branches, you can choose)
Age of children: 1.5 months - 4 years, 5 - 7 years.
Water purification system: multi-level ()
Cost: one-time lesson – from 700 rub. (you can find out more here for each branch http://delfinenok.ru/price_and_bonus.html)
3. Center"Magic Child"(Bakuleva street, 5)
Children's age: 2 months. – 4 years
Water purification system: multi-level, with ozonation
Cost: one-time lesson – 1000 rubles, lesson in a subscription – 700 rubles.
4. Center« Duckling» (Avtozavodskaya str., 21, swimming pool of the Torpedo sports complex)
Children's age: 2 months. – 4 years; 4 – 6 years;
Water purification system: hypochlorination, constant filtration due to water circulation
Cost: one-time lesson with a trainer – 900 rubles; subscription 4 classes – 2800 rub.
5. Center for Positive Living Bright Family(Staromonetny Lane, building 18)
Children's age: 1.5 months. – 3 years, 4-7 years
Water purification system: three-stage (ultraviolet water treatment, hypochlorination and quartz-sand filters)
Cost: one-time lesson with a trainer - 1100 rubles.
