Many parents doing swimming with the babies at some point faced a crying problem. What it is important to provide that process of bathing became joyful for you and your kid?
Why my kid cries in the pool? Whether it is worth continuing trainings during crying? Maybe my child does not love water, and you should not torment him? These and many other questions quite often appear at parents during the classes baby swimming. What it is important to pay to attention that process of bathing brought pleasure to you and your kid.
- Rule No. 1. Tranquility of mom/dad. It is, perhaps, the most important factor, in most cases the fear and uncertainty of parents are the reason of crying of the child. On classes in the pool it is quite often possible to notice such scene: the child cries on hands at mom, but instantly calms down at the trainer. Usually it occurs at the first trainings. Exercises seem to mom too aggressive, and she hesitates to repeat them at full capacity. In this case it is necessary or to overcome the fear, or to initially entrust classes to dad. For certain at dad and a hand is stronger, both nerves are stronger, and the relation to process is easier. You remember, in quiet and sure hands the kid feels safe.
- Rule No. 2. Patience and once again patience. It is not necessary to try to show the Olympic records in a month. Your task is to keep love for water at the kid. To keep, he cannot but love water. The child of 9 months lived in the water environment, it for him is pleasant and comfortable. In everything keep the sequence, observe. There are approximate terms of the beginning of performance of any given exercises, but the final choice for you. You pass to the next stage, only if you see that to the kid it is comfortable in previous.
- Rule No. 3. To begin as soon as possible. Now many pools suggest to begin classes with 2-3 monthly kids. However it is necessary to begin home trainings as soon as possible. As soon as the umbilical wound heals, begin classes in a big bathtub, in it it is possible to master general exercises and technology of diving. The ability to a reflex delay of breath remains up to 2-3 months therefore it is important to set this congenital skill in time and to transfer it to the category of acquired. Except that house it is necessary to adapt gradually the kid to the pool temperature (31-32 degrees).
- Rule No. 4. To be engaged as often as possible. Few weeks of a break can cost you all earlier spent efforts. Therefore are not lazy and engaged with the child every day. For example, it is possible to bathe the kid two times. In the morning – in a small bath with hot water for the purpose of, actually, bathing. And to gather a big bathtub cool water in the evening and to perfect swimming skill. Do not neglect home trainings even from the beginning of classes in the pool. It is in this case difficult to go too far, but at the same time it is impossible to forget about Rule 2.
- Rule No. 5. To prepare the kid for occupation. Besides fear in water the same reasons, as on the land can cause crying of the child. The child is hungry. Wants to sleep. Teeth climb. You seek to organize regime of the child so that during the classes he was not disturbed by needs of nature. For example, feed the kid one couple of hours prior to a training. Let he will have a sleep in a carriage or the car on the way to the pool. Replace a training in the pool with quieter occupation of the house if something disturbs the kid.
- Rule No. 6. Watch the child. All children different, are pleasant to all different exercises. Someone likes to swim on chest, someone – on a back. Observe that to liking to your kid, and repeat these exercises at the moments of his fatigue. Sometimes minute of rest is enough that the kid calmed down and continued study up to the end.
- Rule No. 7. Learn to distinguish crying manipulation. All children is excellent psychologists and often skillfully manipulate parents. Learn to distinguish crying pain (fatigue, fear) for crying manipulation. It is useful not only in water, but also in everyday life. Otherwise mom risks to turn into a pack horse without minute of free time. In a sluch of manipulation it is the best of all to pretend that you notice nothing. Several minutes of endurance are usually enough that the kid accepted a situation and switched to something else. To the contrary, one manifestation of weakness can cost to you very much.