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[BritDisFan]

I learned to swim when I was about 6 in the school pool.

[Tricia Davids]

First my father threw me in the middle of the lake - so I learned quickly how to swim. Then my mom followed his technique up with several summers of red cross lessons at a local community pool.

[Lemap760]

I learned at the town recreation center as a child.

DS has been taking lessons at the Y and has been doing pretty well. Yesterday I told him he didn't need his swim bubble and he jumped right in and dog paddled around. I think he'll do better in our own pool with practicing every day.

[CelticChick]

I was probably about 5 and my dad taught me to swim. My DS's had lessons for about a year when they were about the same age. I am ashamed to say I have not done any lessons for DD yet, but she does keep asking.

[lauren-roxy]

I learned at the Y when I was about 6

[krisk11]

We got a 4' deep pool the summer after Kindergarten so I assume I learned in that probably being taught by my dad or one of my brothers. My mom couldn't swim so the pool had to be shallow enough that she could stand in it if she had to make a rescue. I took my dd to swim lessons that were offered at one of our elementary schools. I think the instructor was a descendant of Hitler but dd loved the water and wasn't afraid to put her face in so she survived the class. Some of the other poor kids are probably still traumatized by this women who never even went in the water she use to just walk up and down the pool deck screaming. Luckily there were nice swim instructors actually in the water with the kids.

[chezp]

I learnt to swim at primary school when I was about five years old. We were very lucky and our school had its own pool - very unusual.

[AmyJune]

How did I learn to swim? My dad threw me in to the deep end of the pool and said "swim". So I learned to swim enough to keep myself a float. When I got married to my DH, he had swum (this that the right term) competatively so he is the one who taught me how to swim properly.

He taught my DNeice how to swim, she didn't like the group lessons. Maybe you can find a teeanger on a swim team that would be willing to teach your kids. I know having someone that DN trusted not to drowned her helped!

[Disney 4ever]

Never had formal lessons, just going to the pool everyday with friends, we learned to swim. I don't think many of my friends took lessons. You just kept at it until you could go alittle deeper and alittle deeper. I remember the first time I swam across the deep end of our apartment pool. I was about 6 or 7, my mother was scared to death she was going to have to jump in and save me. She kept saying swim, swim, swim! She had just come home from having her hair done! We still laugh about that, all the years later!

[Rainbowy]

I learned at the YMCA and then really got going the next summer at the Driftwood club in Ft. Lauderdale. I taught myself to swim on my back, and to dive and even do back flips. We spent two weeks there every other summer. So thats where I really got swimming well.

[duck addict]

I can't remember where I learned. I only remember always being able to swim

[revral]

I took lessons at the local pool when I was a kid. I'm not sure how old I was though. I also went to a private school for 1st and 2nd grade that had a pool and 2 or 3 days a week we had swimming instead of regular pe.

[Nimros]

Originally Posted by Disney 4ever

I remember the first time I swam across the deep end of our apartment pool. I was about 6 or 7, my mother was scared to death she was going to have to jump in and save me. She kept saying swim, swim, swim! She had just come home from having her hair done! We still laugh about that, all the years later!

That is funny!

[Nimros]

I had to laugh about all your stories of 'sink or swim.'

My twin cousins (who are 1 year younger than me) had what I considered the coolest mom ever. My aunt was tough and funny and straightforward. She took the twins down to their community pool when they were 2 years old and threw them in!

Yep, they learned to swim that day.

At that age, my mom wouldn't even let me near a body of water.

[DisneyFun-atic]

I grew up spending summers on a lake. I don't remember when I actually learned how to swim. Seems I always knew because we were always around water from a very young age. I never "officially" learned to swim proper strokes or anything like that, but I'm plenty comfortable in the water.

We were taking DD to the Boy's & Girl's club for swim lessons, but we haven't always been able to make them and she doesn't really like being told what to do either so we'll work on it over the summer at the lake.

We also have one of those quick set pools in our yard. It's about 16 feet across and 4 feet deep so I think she'll get some practice in ther with us.