I wonder how much early swim lessons are a proxy for parental conscientiousness, awareness of drowning as a risk, and income. The study considered controlling for income and then decided to instead control for “less than high school education vs more than high school education” on the part of the relative answering the questions. :(
Yeah, I was comfortable swimming before I could walk. Not like, make good progress per say, but like, if I fell in water with no flotation assistance, I could comfortably hold my breath, orient, get to the surface, and float on my back comfortably without assistance.
Awesome!
I recently found out that you can apparently begin teaching a child to swim as early as 4 months. This seems important since children are at highest risk of drowning at ages 1-4, but the rate was found to be far lower among children these ages who had had formal swimming instruction: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/381058
I wonder how much early swim lessons are a proxy for parental conscientiousness, awareness of drowning as a risk, and income. The study considered controlling for income and then decided to instead control for “less than high school education vs more than high school education” on the part of the relative answering the questions. :(
Yeah, I was comfortable swimming before I could walk. Not like, make good progress per say, but like, if I fell in water with no flotation assistance, I could comfortably hold my breath, orient, get to the surface, and float on my back comfortably without assistance.