Teach Your Kids to Swim: Tips and tricks for fun-for-everyone swimming lessons Paperback – March 12, 2017

I thought this book was very well written and as a swim lesson instructor, found it helpful for new ideas. It also helped me with giving instructions to the parents (or I've recommended they get a copy of the book themselves to assist the lessons) to continue at home and support what we're doing in the lessons. I'll be reviewing this before each summer!

Great Book with useful tips to work with non swimmers

This book has good ideas for getting kids comfortable and confident in the water. Even if you plan to pay for a swim instructor, I would recommend starting with these ideas first, so that your child is happy and ready to learn from a paid instructor. Even a parent who cannot swim at all can use many of these ideas. There are also tips for reinforcing your child's learning outside the pool. Only four stars because for the length of the book, I think it is overpriced. Borrowed on the Kindle lending library, it gets five stars!

Good, simple guide - written from a kids point of view. Looking forward to trying this out with my own kids. Taking one star off as it is a relatively short book for the price, but overall well worth it.

The quality of the book is cheap, it reads like a list of tips pulled from the Internet, there is no index and the book has no illustrations or photos which you'd expect. There are some decent pointers but you have to dig deep to find them. If your child has never been to the swimming pool it might be a bit more worth your time. Overall, there's a gap in the market for a good how to teach your kids to swim book but this tome is certainly not it.

It is not easy to teach your child to swim on your own, that's why I purchased the book. Ms. Murphy is quite helpful in some regards but can be utterly boring in others. She keeps repeating the same things like some mantra (issues that any grown-up with some signs of cognitive thinking can sum up and follow before taking a child into the water) and this takes up at least half of the book. When she actually explains how children's body and mind work, what kind of excercises to use, how to handle the whole teaching situation, she can be very informative. I focus on results and in three months I could teach my son how to swim. Ms. Murphy's book helped me in this task and for this I'm grateful and tend to forgive her obsessive need to repeat things. As far as I know there are not that many books on this topic, so grab a copy, read it and go to the swimming pool with your child and use Mr. Murphy's book as an extremely helpful crutch in your formidable task.