Swimming Lessons Learned :: Why We Should Never Let Them Out of Sight

As appeared in Multiplicity Magazine, Summer 2013 issue

Written By: Nellie Harden

“There were more colors than I had ever seen before and it was so beautiful! I heard music and I was warm and happy”. These are the words of my, now five year old, daughter when she described to me her point of view of my worst nightmare.

July 11, 2010 was a pool-side reunion at my in-laws’ home with around 50 in attendance. The sun was out, the laughter was flowing and reminiscent talk was echoing from one conversation to the next. My husband and I were in the pool talking and intermittently playing with our four year old and twin two year old daughters, while holding our newest addition as she discovered this larger-than-life bathtub.

The veil of serenity was suddenly pierced with a few short words muttered by a man I had never met before sitting on the balcony above. “Is she okay down there?”

Dive Right In! Teaching your Twins How to Swim!

Living in Florida there is no way around it. You either sink or swim. So, once summer arrived and my twins were old enough to sit up by themselves, I knew it was time to teach them how to swim. Anxious to dive right in, I figured it’d be a cinch since this was my second time teaching swim lessons. While my eldest son grew up swimming like a pro right from the start, little did I know that this was wishful thinking, with more than one toddler. So this summer before you take a dip with your twins, here are a few tips that’ll have them swimming like one fish, two fish in no time!