How Our North Lakes Swim School Helps Your Child’s Development
Have you ever wondered how your child learns where they are in space? It all starts with their first roll, crawl and steps. These early movements build spatial awareness - a crucial skill that helps your child understand their environment and navigate it confidently.
Why Spatial Awareness Matters
Spatial awareness is your child's ability to understand their body's position and movement. It’s the foundation for important skills like fitting through small spaces, figuring out shapes and knowing how to curl up small or stretch out tall. These experiences help your child develop cross-lateral patterning, essential for long-term learning, logic and literacy skills.
How Swimming Lessons Boost Spatial Awareness
When it comes to swimming lessons for kids, spatial awareness plays a big role in their progress. Before mastering skills like stretching out to float or perfecting arm strokes, children first need to understand where their hands and feet are in space.
At TLC’s North Lakes Learn to Swim school, we provide a fun and engaging environment where your child can develop these skills while building water confidence and essential swimming skills for toddlers and children.
Common Swimming Challenges Linked to Spatial Awareness
If your child is struggling with certain learn to swim skills, it might be due to a lack of spatial awareness. Common challenges include:
- Face in the water: Your child might think their nose is in the water when it’s not
- Bent knee kick: Despite your efforts, their kick isn’t improving
- Arm rotation: Struggling with proper arm movement
- Climbing out of the pool: Difficulty coordinating to get out of the water
- Hesitation with hoops: Hesitant to swim or walk through a hoop
- Walking backwards: Unsure about walking backwards in water
- Pushing back water: Struggling to push the water behind them effectively.
Fun Activities to Enhance Spatial Awareness in the Pool
At TLC Learn to Swim, we incorporate engaging activities into our children’s swimming lessons to help develop spatial awareness. Even beyond the pool, we offer simple at-home exercises to keep your child practicing, even if they don’t have a pool.
As your child grows, their spatial awareness will help them with everyday tasks. By focusing on these skills now, you’re giving them a head start in navigating the world around them - both in and out of the water!