Stay safe this summer with swimming safety tips
By Jackie Burrell, Contra Costa Times For all the beachy joys of summer, it’s also a season of tragic drownings. And this year’s statistics are more horrifying than ever. A California mother and her...
View ArticleNo pool? No problem! Water games to fit your budget
By Cathy Frisinger, McClatchy Newspapers Kids whining that it’s too hot to go outside? Here’s a recipe for relief: Just add water. Jenny Rosenstrach, features editor of Cookie, a family lifestyle...
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Mom invents no-snag goggles
By William Hageman, Chicago Tribune Anyone with kids has experienced it: You try to put swim goggles on your child, and he or she yipes as the strap pulls on hair. With three kids taking swimming...
View ArticleMom makes summer swimming resolution
By Jeannette Rivera-Lyles, The Orlando Sentinel I knew something was off when on the last day of two weeks of swimming lessons my 6-year-old kept on screaming “Save me, save me!” every time his face...
View ArticleMore blacks learn to swim, but numbers are still lacking
By Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Eight-year-old Davion Chatman does a handstand in about three feet of water in the Fairground Pool in St. Louis, Mo., one recent afternoon....
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