“We would like it to be like seatbelts and bicycle helmets,” says Ms Anderson.
I must admit this is what hubby said about our kid taking swimming lessons years ago. “Swimming is not only a sport, but it could save her life someday”.
Hubby is a very strong swimmer, I’m not I used to be able to swim “OK” in my teen years, but like some of the kids mentioned in the article I basically taught myself.
As of now I won’t go out even to my knees in the ocean alone.
The kid did good, she was on the swim team for a while and even worked one summer as a life guard.
I’ll tell you this too, I think Arabs like to swim a lot. There were several on her HS swim team. That kind of surprised me.
If I lived in the desert I would be looking for a good cool down.