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How to Teach a Child to Swim the Breaststroke
"Has anyone seen a frog jumping or swimming? If you have, that's what the breaststroke looks like." I have often heard that the breaststroke is so easy, so graceful, so…
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How to Teach a Child to Swim Butterfly Stroke
Arm Movements Standing out of the water, have the children put both of their arms out straight in front of them and push them down to the legs. They should…
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How to Teach a Child to Lift the Head Out of the Water While Swimming
This is one fault that everybody has in the early learning stages. The child rolls his head and looks back at his breathing arm but, instead of keeping his chin…
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How to Teach a Child to Kick While Swimming
Some children seem as if they are only dragging their feet, and when put on a kicking board, they don't seem to be able to move at all. They are…
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How to Teach a Child to Hold the Breath While Swimming
Until somebody has mastered the breathing technique, it's definitely easier to swim along just holding on to your breath and not letting it out. The trouble is that sooner or…
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How to Teach a Child to Breath While Swimming
When doing freestyle you turn your head to the side out of the water to breathe. Breathing correctly is a major element in swimming successfully. Later in life many people…
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How to Teach a Child to Blow Bubbles and Take a Big Breath during Swimming Lesson
When teaching a child to swim, you must remember that it is equally important for the child to learn how to blow bubbles as it is to hold the breath.…
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How to Teach a Child Dolphin Kicking
Have the children hold on to the edge of the pool, then ask them to try to do a new kind of kicking—dolphin kicking. Keeping the knees lightly together, the…
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How to Teach Your Child to Dress Herself
Getting dressed in the morning is a skill that virtually every child masters. Before your child learns how to put clothes on, she'll learn how to take them off. It's…
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How to Teach Your Child to Cope with Bullying
Bullying is one of the worst forms of antisocial behavior because it involves exploiting someone else's personal weakness by frightening that person into acquiescence. Every child fears a bully. Some…
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How to Teach a Child Proper Hygiene
Personal hygiene is important for everyone. Encourage your child to take an interest in his level of cleanliness from an early age. You can let them read the Kids Hygiene…
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How to Teach a Child with ADHD Planning and Organization
Many children with ADHD have persistent problems with planning, organization and time management, irrespective of whether they are on medication or not. Problems with prioritizing, making decisions, thinking ahead and…
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How to Teach Your Child Basic Cooking Skills
What is the one skill that will be useful—even necessary—to your child all of his or her life? Not the ability to throw a touchdown pass. Not the ability to…
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How to Teach Your Child Basic Self-Defense Skills
Provide your child with basic self-defense skills. This is important not only for maintaining your child's self-confidence and self-esteem, but also for insuring your child's life. In our society today,…
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How to Teach Your Child How to Read and Follow Written Instructions
A big part of your child's sense of self-confidence comes from the ability to know what to do in emergency situations, when solving problems, and when trying to get things…
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How to Teach Your Child Rejection-Coping Skills
Every child at some point will face another child, a sibling perhaps, or even an adult, who will say, "Go away. I don't want to play with you. I don't…
How to Teach Your Child to Fix Breaks and Rips
Things break. The first tendency of a parent is to fix the break, mend the torn garment, put the arm of the doll back on, sew on the button, or…
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How to Teach Your Child to Give
Give your child the opportunity to give. The child with self-esteem gives voluntarily. Encouraging your child to be generous even when it isn't his or her idea helps build self-esteem.…
How to Teach Your Child to Save Money
Help your child at an early age to start and build a savings account. Give your child an opportunity to earn money and add to the account on a regular…
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How to Teach Your Child to Take Responsibility for Their Actions
Children who are forced to take responsibility for their own actions know, "Mom and Dad consider me capable of acting on my own, and they count me as a valuable…