Before going any further, here’s the main thing parents should know about swimming lessons: all children should have them. Every year, over 4,500 people die from drowning in the United States — and, ...

Drowning is a real risk for young kids—but teaching them to swim can save their lives while also making summer more fun.

According to a recent study by the USA Swimming Foundation, 64% of Black children in the United States cannot swim.

It's crucial that young children learn to swim, but it's a lot easier to get lessons if you're affluent and White.

Nearly three out of four kids in Chicago had no swimming lessons in summer of 2022, with significant racial and ethnic differences, according to a parent survey from Ann & Robert H. Lurie ...

Ask any parent: learning to swim is important, despite the frustrations of those first lessons. And when a child has special needs, large-group lessons in a loud, busy pool simply doesn’t work.

For learning to swim, the painful fact is that location, transportation and costs are barriers for many families, and children pay the price.

CINCINNATI (WLWT) — A Northern Kentucky swim company is launching an annual scholarship to pay for autistic and nonverbal children to learn to swim. The idea started after seeing WLWT’s coverage of a ...

Water Safety Week looks at disparities in learning to swim NEW YORK -- Every summer, children drown at local pools, beaches and rivers. That's why CBS2 is dedicating this week to water safety.

WILL ROLL OUT. THE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES HEALTH ASSOCIATION, Y OF CENTRAL MARYLAND AND BALTIMORE RAVENS HOPE TO TACKLE CULTURAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL BARRIERS WHEN IT COMES TO SWIM SAFETY. MOST YOUNG ...