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[MontiMouse]

I started taking lessons when I was 6 at the pool in the neighborhood where we lived. I took it for about 3 summers in a row.

The University I work for offers Red Cross swimming lessons at the pool on campus and that is what Macy has taken. She completed level 6 last summer so she basically has 6 years of lessons (and swims like a fish) along with boating safety and very basic first aid. It is a great program.

[DopeyGirl]

I had mommy and me lessons when I was 9 months old, but nothing after that. We had a 2 week swim unit in junior high P.E. class where I had to join the "non-swimmers" to learn basics . . . and it evidently either didn't stick or I just was too much of a scaredy cat, because I had to do it AGAIN when I went to boot camp before I could take my swim qualification test.

I learned how, but was so scared that I forgot all about how to tread water after I jumped (or rather flapped my arms thinking I could fly) off the 12 foot high platform into the water.

I could probably swim if I had to, but I don't like to.

DD has never had lessons . . . and she's only ever swam in 4 foot of water or less. Anything more and she has arm floaties on. We'll probably look into getting her lessons next summer or something.

[lukeandbrookesmom]

I grew up on Cape Cod and never learned to swim: I vow to get Luke and Brooke to learn

[GoofyMom]

I learned in the lakes in Northern Saskatchewan in July shortly after the ice melts off the water. Then I learned about hypothermia. I started out with Red Cross swimming lessons, then we moved on to Royal Life Saving Society lessons. I'm one badge below my Lifeguard qualification. I prefer just to play in the water rather than swim, but it's good to know that I know how.

[Grandmasam]

The city parks had a swim program in the summers, and we took advantage of that every year. I really can't remember NOT knowing how to swim!

[Joanne929]

My sisters and I took lessons at the local MDC pool - I think I was about 7 (I started the month after we went to WDW with my parents in the 70's - I remember that!). I love to swim, but hate to wear a bathing suit now (I think DH has seen me in one three times!)

[Colexis Mom]

I learned to swim at the YMCA and then at daycamp when I was younger

[Tink and co.]

I don't remember not knowing how to swim either. I learned at a private swim school in the city where I grew up. Took Saturday lessons for years, and still love to swim!
My oldest learned through a combination of Y and Rec Center lessons, and the two youngest took infant swim research lessons at a friend's backyard pool. It was the best investment I've ever made. All three of my kids are fish.