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Babies learn to swim in Dubai
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Babies learn to swim in Dubai
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We're teaching the babies actual life skills, hopefully that one day they might need to
00:14
use them should they fall into a swimming pool.
00:15
We live in Dubai, obviously where a lot of people have got access to pools.
00:20
We're trying to teach babies the skills to actually learn to swim at a very young age.
00:25
A lot of our babies, my babies in fact, start from around four months, and if they go to
00:29
the course, pretty much by the age of two they can actually swim, so obviously the benefits
00:34
of that are just huge.
00:36
It's not only just for the babies, a lot of parents are unsure how to be in the water
00:41
with their own children, so I find it's not just the children that progress, but obviously
00:45
the parents.
00:46
They learn how to handle their babies and become much more relaxed just by doing a wash
00:51
baby session.
00:52
We spoke to that mummy, she was a very nervous mummy in the beginning, even out of the pool
00:57
and in life, and I think if you can learn to bond with your baby in the water, it's
01:01
quite a relaxed environment.
01:03
There's a lot of babies that are stressed out in the water, and I actually sometimes
01:07
say, okay, come back to me when you're actually having fun with your baby.
01:12
Go away, and I give them exercises doing the bath and the swimming pool.
01:17
Actually some parents don't even think about buying toys and having colour and stimulation
01:22
around.
01:23
The first song that we do is always the opening song.
01:25
It's always the same song, we sing, if you're happy and you know it, the babies actually
01:29
know then that that is the start of the class.
01:32
Then we do a few exercises, and if some of the babies get a little bit cranky, we then
01:37
bring them back together as well.
01:38
But you'll notice that we did a song where we're doing the kicking exercises.
01:43
It's also babies thinking about kicking to a song, so we'll sing Kick This Away, and
01:48
then you'll find with the parents helping in the beginning, then we'll sing the song
01:52
again, and the parents don't need to do it for the baby.
01:55
There's a few different things, obviously it keeps it more pleasurable, but also there
02:00
are specific functions, you see, we do Humpty Dumpty on the wall, that's an exercise to
02:06
bring them in, and we count one, two, three, so the babies are coming in, they're going
02:11
under the water and up.
02:13
We start with the bubbles, and then you're going to start with the babies, so if we put
02:17
them under the water, you always count one, two, three, and then you'll take them under.
02:21
We do about five key skills, one of the first ones you'll get them to hold on to the side,
02:26
obviously that's a key life-saving skill, so holding on, monkey, monkey around the wall,
02:32
bubbles, and then one, two, three, we'll get them under.
02:34
Pretty much on the third lesson, they will all be going under the water.
02:38
This is her first term, so she started the beginning of September.
02:41
She's much happier.
02:42
I brought her here because I wanted her to be safe if she fell into the pool unsupervised.
02:47
Already in the baby pool, she could walk without a float.
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If she falls down, she doesn't panic, she doesn't swallow a lot of water, she doesn't
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get upset.
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I can pick her back up, and she continues as normal, without any fuss.
03:00
We get to do an activity together, which is really lovely, we get to bond over her learning
03:05
something.
03:06
When we're in the pool back at home, I have exercises I can do with her so we can continue
03:12
to learn at home.
03:13
We get to enjoy the water together.
03:15
If you put her under water, she can push the water to get to you, wouldn't really call
03:20
it swimming yet.
03:21
She can climb out of the pool, and knows how to jump back into the pool, put her body weight
03:26
forward to fall in, which she didn't do before.
03:28
It makes me feel very happy, it makes me feel like she's on the way now, from a very early
03:34
age to being a good swimmer.
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My son was very happy, he was acting with the other babies, he was nice, he started
03:42
to clap his hands to the water, and the teacher got him into the water, he was like, he doesn't
03:52
know what to do, but I think he will develop all these things.
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