Before, our editorial department sent an article on early childhood education, but received many messages backstage asking questions about parent-child swimming.
Just like the early childhood education course, this is also a risk-averse who spends money like water. How effective is it? Is it worth letting children swim?
Today, let’s talk about it.
Does baby swimming have what benefits?
Now there is a lot of publicity about the benefits of baby swimming.
Open a search engine, the first two or two are the advertising space purchased by the merchant (just ask the merchant if the moat is not moat).
The photos of the babies MengMeng, the blue poster background and the attractive advertisement words make it easy for mothers to lose control.
Is swimming good for the baby?
Yes, there are.
Swimming is a good way to exercise, which can enhance the baby’s vital capacity, improve the baby’s disease resistance, promote intestinal peristalsis, and establish a normal sleep rhythm for the baby, thus effectively promoting the development of all aspects of the baby’s body.
[Wow, isn’t that good? ]
Yes, it all sounds very beautiful, but… please pay attention to this but.
The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that babies under 1 year old do not recommend any form of swimming lessons, which is not helpful to them.
Some mothers said, I don’t expect my children to learn to swim either. I just want my children to play with water and exercise.
Even so, it is not recommended.
Why? Let’s analyze it slowly.
Common neck ring swimming, potential safety hazards cannot be ignored
The market for baby swimming is relatively large and there are many kinds, the most common of which are small chain baby swimming institutions.
These swimming organizations will go deep into major shopping malls and residential areas, rent a venue and build several [big bathtubs], one for each baby, and the baby will spin around and kick in the water with a neck ring, not to mention how comfortable it is.
Previously, in a variety show, Jia Jingwen was criticized by netizens for putting a neck ring on his daughter.
Why? Because this kind of neck ring baby swimming hides great potential safety hazard.
The baby’s bones and spine are not well developed. This kind of neck ring will turn the baby’s neck into a load-bearing part of the body, which may hurt the baby’s spine if you don’t pay attention to it.
Moreover, the neck ring is mostly made of plastic, and some babies may be allergic to the neck ring or cause skin redness, damage or even dermatitis due to excessive friction of the neck ring.
The size of the neck ring is also difficult to control. If the inflation is excessive, the neck ring that is too tight will easily compress the carotid sinus. If the inflation is insufficient or too large, it will easily cause the baby to slide down and be life-threatening.
A few years ago, there was news in the media that a two-month-old baby boy drowned because he was swimming at home with a neck ring. As a result, the safety of the baby’s neck ring was greatly questioned.
This kind of neck ring swimming is not only uncomfortable and unsafe for the baby, but also unused abroad, while at home, parents are flocking to it.
If you have a loving parent-child swimming, the price is too high to be worthy of the name.
Of course, there are baby swimming institutions that do not use neck rings, but… that is really expensive.
Water bath courses and parent-child swimming are all items of fire in recent years.
Compared with the baby swimming mentioned earlier, these two types of swimming institutions do not need neck rings and allow adults and children to swim (play with water) together under professional guidance.
It looks good, doesn’t it? Especially when parents and children swim, parents and children swim and play together, which is simply too loving!
However, we checked on the Internet and found that the prices of these parent-child swimming pools were too expensive.
If mothers go to group buying websites to search for parent-child swimming, they will often find it quite cost-effective, only 120 yuan.
However, this is only a trick of the merchants. When you take your baby to experience planting grass once, the sales will lobby you to handle the card-it’s all routine.
There are more than 400 classes in one class, and [professionals] also said that only by traveling around at least 2-3 times can the goal of exercising the baby’s body be achieved.
Swimming twice a week for 40 minutes each time, plus taking a bath, massaging, blowing head and taking a nap, the maximum time in the swimming pool is 2-3 hours each time, plus the travelling expenses to and from the swimming pool.
It costs nearly 1,000 a week.
At the end of a set of courses, the cheapest one will cost more than 10,000 yuan.
After spending so much money, Eva likes to swim.
However, some babies are insecure in the water and their emotions are very conflicting. They cry and make a lot of noise when they go into the water. If such a situation occurs, mothers can only pretend to be Buddhists in their hearts.
There are many mothers on a second-hand platform who cannot go swimming for various reasons and have to transfer tens of thousands of annual cards at a low price with tears in their eyes.
There are many hidden dangers of cross-infection in swimming events under 0 supervision.
At present, there is no unified regulation on the supervision of baby swimming pools in China.
Last year, the Beijing News reporter visited many infant swimming pools in Beijing and found that the water quality and disinfection work of many swimming pools and even well-known large swimming pools were worrying.
Those swimming pools claim to disinfect swimming pools every day to ensure water quality, but they are not really strictly operated and no one knows.
It is very likely that other babies suffer from hand-foot-mouth disease and go to the swimming pool to play. Your children also use the same swimming ring, bathe in a bathing table, and then are forced to be recruited.
Swimming is not the best choice for your baby to exercise.
Having said so much, mothers want to take their babies to play and exercise for a good purpose, but think carefully about the potential risks and cost performance.
Baby swimming sounds wonderful, and the income is far lower than the cost.
In fact, as long as the mother pays more attention, the baby can get physical exercise at home, which is worry-free and laborious.
For example, we have introduced some methods of exercising at home, which can be seen:
- Baby massage early education game fine action
Baby swimming is not like buying clothes, popular is not necessarily the best.
Clothes can be changed if you don’t like them, but babies can’t try and make mistakes. According to the existing facilities and conditions of the baby swimming pool in China, mothers may really think it over before throwing money.