Norway, Swimming is a sport that must be controlled by children. Children can be taught to swim from an early age, even since they were babies. What age can a baby have been taught to swim? A study found that babies who are taught to swim since I was a few months old, have a physical balance and ability to hold a better than babies who are not taught to swim.
"These differences remain visible even to the five-year-old child," said Professor Hermundur Sigmundsson, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, as quoted from Dailymail, Friday (30/04/2010). Babies swimmers have participated in swim classes for two hours a week from the age of 2-3 months until they were aged around seven months.
A typical session of this baby swimming class is to help the baby doing somersaults on the objects that float, dive under the water, and jump from the edge of the pool. The rest depends on the parents of each infant. Sigmundsson Professor and Professor Brian Hopkins of Lancaster University, and then comparing the 19 infant swimmers and 19 infants who did not participate in baby swimming group.
The only factor that distinguishes them is to swim, other factors such as parental education and economic status is the same. When they reach the age of five years, these two groups were tested with several exercises like balancing on one foot, jump rope and catch the pillow.
The results were startling. "We see very clearly that babies who are taught to swim from an early age is the best in training related to balance and ability to achieve something," said Professor Sigmundsson. But Professor Sigmundsson very surprised at how instructors can bring the three-month-old infants achieve a balance by being able to stand on their hands. Joint visible babies locked and is an extraordinary spectacle.
He believes that teaching children to swim as a baby so give significant results. Specialized training for infants affected in the future. The development is the mutual dynamic between maturation, growth, experience and learning. And we should not underestimate the learning aspect. The results of this study will be published in May 2010 issue of Child: Care Health and Development.
"These differences remain visible even to the five-year-old child," said Professor Hermundur Sigmundsson, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, as quoted from Dailymail, Friday (30/04/2010). Babies swimmers have participated in swim classes for two hours a week from the age of 2-3 months until they were aged around seven months.
A typical session of this baby swimming class is to help the baby doing somersaults on the objects that float, dive under the water, and jump from the edge of the pool. The rest depends on the parents of each infant. Sigmundsson Professor and Professor Brian Hopkins of Lancaster University, and then comparing the 19 infant swimmers and 19 infants who did not participate in baby swimming group.
The only factor that distinguishes them is to swim, other factors such as parental education and economic status is the same. When they reach the age of five years, these two groups were tested with several exercises like balancing on one foot, jump rope and catch the pillow.
The results were startling. "We see very clearly that babies who are taught to swim from an early age is the best in training related to balance and ability to achieve something," said Professor Sigmundsson. But Professor Sigmundsson very surprised at how instructors can bring the three-month-old infants achieve a balance by being able to stand on their hands. Joint visible babies locked and is an extraordinary spectacle.
He believes that teaching children to swim as a baby so give significant results. Specialized training for infants affected in the future. The development is the mutual dynamic between maturation, growth, experience and learning. And we should not underestimate the learning aspect. The results of this study will be published in May 2010 issue of Child: Care Health and Development.
