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re: Is this child abuse or merely a mom teaching her toddler to swim?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:04 pm to Nikki_T
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:04 pm to Nikki_T
That’s how you teach toddlers how to swim. It’s very hard to watch but it works. Do I like it? No. That’s how I learned to swim except thrown in and had to get to the watermelon. My daughter took lessons like this and it works.
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Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:08 pm to Nikki_T
They are teaching the kid what do in an emergency in case they fall in with nobody around. They want kids to know how to get to the edge and hold on and then monkey crawl along the edge to the stairs. This sorta thing saves a lot of lives.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:08 pm to Nikki_T
the world is full of lil bitches not a thing wrong with this
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:14 pm to Nikki_T
We did survival swim lessons when my kid was 3 (Tadpole Academy in the BR area) that are pretty aggressive by coddling standards. The instructor warned us that the kids would probably cry the whole time the first few days, and she was right. Most kids haaaated it. It involved numerous rounds of forcing our kid to jump into the pool, get his face pushed underwater to swim to the next instructor, climb out, and do it again. All while crying. But by the third day, he was no longer scared of getting his face in the water, and he loved it. By the end of the 10 days, he could swim to the edge and climb out. I had other friends whose kids were in weekly lessons to ease them in, and their kids couldn’t stand getting their faces wet after months.
If you’ve got a pool or access to water, the kinds of lessons in that video are so important.
If you’ve got a pool or access to water, the kinds of lessons in that video are so important.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:51 pm to auggie
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My Dad did the same thing with me, only difference: he would whoop me for cryin.
I became a really good swimmer.
It's crazy to see people freak out over this. My dad essentially just tossed us in the water as babies. We were at the beach getting tumbled over by the waves before 5, with no floaties.
People are so soft.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:53 pm to Nikki_T
The way my grandpa taught his kids to swim was how my dad taught me and my sister, which wasn't even this sophisticated. Throw you in as a toddler and let you float without floaties. Of course they were right there if you panicked and started to drown.
If you ever throw a dog in the water for the first time, it'll do the same thing
If you ever throw a dog in the water for the first time, it'll do the same thing
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:12 pm to cubsfan5150
Some of you are so fricking stupid that I sincerely don’t know how you even pay your bills
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:18 pm to DaleGribblesMower
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Some of you are so fricking stupid that I sincerely don’t know how you even pay your bills
I don’t, you do.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:21 pm to Nikki_T
My dad did the same thing to me when I was 3 or 4. I swam on a full paid scholarship for the University of Cincinnati for 4 years. I’m ok with this.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:25 pm to Nikki_T
Retired last year after 30 years in law enforcement - all road patrol. Never once responded to an accidental shooting of a child by a gun in the home. Went to a bunch of accidental drownings of kids in pools. This is a must.
The fact someone even suggests this is abusive is just another indicator of where our society is at.
The fact someone even suggests this is abusive is just another indicator of where our society is at.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:31 pm to Totts Supporter
After reading this thread, do parents not normally take their babies into the water at all?? Seems people are saying that this is something to do/start as toddlers, and they are crying. I don't understand how a toddler isn't use to being in the pool. Not even dunked.
Heck I know my dad would carry us out into the ocean so we can bob up, and down in the waves as babies.
I don't ever recall being afraid of being in the water. Heck one of my first memories is being in the pool.
Heck I know my dad would carry us out into the ocean so we can bob up, and down in the waves as babies.
I don't ever recall being afraid of being in the water. Heck one of my first memories is being in the pool.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:33 pm to CapitalTiger
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This is called ISR and it isn’t the mom. It’s a certified instructor. All of my kids have done it. The last session is in full clothes because that’s how most infant/toddler drownings occur.
The number of people who doesn’t realize this is astonishing.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 9:47 pm to cubsfan5150
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My kids could swim by that age too, but it wasn’t by us throwing their scared butts into the pool, it was by being in there with them and getting them comfortable with being in the water and then having them swim back and forth to us.
Me and my brothers were taught by being thrown into a pool and sinking or swimming. We swam. Dad walked along the side of the pool with his hand raised ready to pop us if we touched the side.
There are less aggressive ways to teach kids to swim, but dad’s way has the additional merit of building character…if you don’t break them.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 2:51 am to HagaDaga
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After reading this thread, do parents not normally take their babies into the water at all?? Seems people are saying that this is something to do/start as toddlers, and they are crying. I don't understand how a toddler isn't use to being in the pool. Not even dunked. Heck I know my dad would carry us out into the ocean so we can bob up, and down in the waves as babies. I don't ever recall being afraid of being in the water. Heck one of my first memories is being in the pool.
Of course we do, but you're holding them and playing with them. As another poster mentioned this isn't swimming lessons or introducing them to the water. This is a survival technique in the event a toddler falls in the pool when the parents aren't around.
If you own a pool and have babies you should put them through this training.
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 2:54 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 4:17 am to CapitalTiger
quote:This.
This is called ISR and it isn’t the mom. It’s a certified instructor. All of my kids have done it. The last session is in full clothes because that’s how most infant/toddler drownings occur.
We did it with our daughter starting around 18 months.
She flips over and floats if she falls in.
She is almost 2 now and is like a fish.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 5:41 am to armytiger96
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Of course we do, but you're holding them and playing with them. As another poster mentioned this isn't swimming lessons or introducing them to the water. This is a survival technique in the event a toddler falls in the pool when the parents aren't around.
If you own a pool and have babies you should put them through this training.
I get the whole training part, and importance of it.
I could have said it better, but what I don't get is toddlers crying if they've been in the pool/water before. Iirc I understood that babies have natural reflexes in water if let go of, while monitoring of course. What my dad with me, and my siblings. Imagine the baby on the Nirvana cover.
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 5:44 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 6:44 am to Nikki_T
It looks brutal but it really isn't.
The method obviously works.
The method obviously works.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 7:13 am to cubsfan5150
I hope the inflammation in your swollen vagina goes away soon as well.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 7:15 am to cubsfan5150
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I hope that lady gets water boarded at some point.
What a clown post
Posted on 9/2/25 at 7:17 am to Lexis Dad
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t looks brutal but it really isn't.
The method obviously works.
I really want to criticize it but I cant. Kid learned to swim at an age long before i did, I bet.
If it works, it works.
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