Swimming trunks for boys – shopping nightmares
I’ve found in the past that whenever I’ve wanted to buy the next size up clothes for N, I always struggle to find the size I’m after. It’s almost like the whole of our town have gone out and bought…
swimming
The big transition from baby and toddler swimming
I couldn’t imagine not having swum with N from a young age. My own journey with learning to swim was very up and down from age 5 to 7, and the OH isn’t keen on swimming, so I wanted to make…
Swimming with Baby Swimming Shop accessories
N’s been swimming for 5 ½ years – you’d think by now he’d be able to swim unaided for a decent distance, but no not yet. N does everything in his own time. However after our experience trying out some…
10 top tips to get your child to love the water
When N swam with Water Babies I wrote a post on how to get your child to love swimming. In one of those strange blogging occurrences that post disappeared, so I decided to rewrite and share our experience. I certainly…
5 things that swimming lessons teach children
After swimming with Water Babies for just under four years, N has done two terms of swimming lessons at the local pool. It was the first time he had been in the pool on his own without me, and I…
Boys swimwear from House of Fraser
Swimwear’s a bit of an unknown for me with N. When he was at Water Babies, it was easy. A happy nappy plus then a rash vest because I didn’t want him shivering, plus it was easier to grab him…
How to put on a swimming cap and other swim hat dilemmas
Swimming lessons throw up a whole load of dilemmas, not least how to put on a swimming cap. I’ve not updated on N’s swimming journey for a long time. Mostly because now he swims independently it means I don’t experience…
The truth about booking swimming lessons
I wrote a few weeks ago that N had now graduated from Water Babies now he’s four. You’d think it would be simple to just transfer him over to new swimming classes and all would be lovely and fine. However,…
Swimming with Mums or Dads
Following on from my post about Dads and family photographs, I’ve been thinking about swimming as well. In our swimming lessons, there’s quite often more Dads than Mums in the water, mainly because it’s a Saturday, and it seems to…
New swimming strokes and butterfly legs
It was such a long time ago now I don’t really remember anything about learning to swim myself. I remember going to the leisure centre at primary school and learning crawl and back stroke but that was it. I never…
Swimming underwater and Nemo chats
Before our last swimming lesson it felt like such a long time since the session before Christmas. Needless to say we didn’t get to the pool over the Christmas holidays, but N didn’t seem too worried about the break. N…
