{"id":8433,"date":"2018-10-26T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/and-your-child-thinks-this-is-just-fun\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:15:52","slug":"and-your-child-thinks-this-is-just-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/and-your-child-thinks-this-is-just-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"And Your Child Thinks This is Just Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10307\" src=\"https:\/\/admin.britishswimschool.com\/app\/..\/uploads\/2019\/10\/04-17-16-british-swim-school-062-DSC05677-768x513-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"swim student floating in the pool with an instructor\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But look at what researchers have found\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Swimming lessons for young children and babies resulted in \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Higher performance physically, intellectually and in motor development (Compared to a control group that did not take year round lessons, the kids who swam consistently were stronger, more coordinated, better problem solvers, had higher scores on intelligence tests, were more self-disciplined, had greater self-esteem and were more independent.) \u2013 German Sports College Cologne<\/p>\n<p>Better balance movement and grasping for babies. \u2013 Norwegian University of Science and Technology<\/p>\n<p>But the broadest study was one done over four years in 45 swim schools in Australia, New Zealand and the US. That study also showed that children under 5 who took swim lessons were more advanced cognitively and physically than their non-swimming peers. \u2013 \u201cEarly Years Swimming Research Project\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British Swim School St. Louis offers premium water survival and swimming lessons for infants, toddlers, children and adults, starting at just 3 months old. We proudly serve the St. Louis communities of Afton, Ballwin, Brentwood, Chesterfield, Clayton, Concord, Crestwood, Creve Coeur, Dardenne Prairie, Eureka, Fenton, High Ridge, Howell Island, Kirkwood, Ladue, Lake St. Louis, Manchester, Maplewood, Maryland Heights, New Town, Olivette, Overland, Richmond Heights, St. Charles, Orchard Farm, St. Paul, St. Peters, Sunset Hills, Town and Country, Valley Park, Webster Groves, Weldon Springs, and Wildwood. Call 314-312-1878 to enroll or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/stlouis\/find-a-class\/\">find a class online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But look at what researchers have found\u2026 Swimming lessons for young children and babies resulted in \u2013 Higher performance physically, intellectually and in motor development (Compared to a control group that did not take year round lessons, the kids who swam consistently were stronger, more coordinated, better problem solvers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swim-programs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}