Nancy Shute blogs on parenting over at a little website called U.S. News and World Report. In a recent post, she describes her own indecision over whether swimming lessons would help reduce her child’s risk of drowning, or actually increase it by lowering their fear of water.

Thank goodness, in a landslide article supporting swim lessons, Nancy provides evidence from empirical research to back her claims:

“Young children are less likely to drown if they’ve taken swimming lessons, according to researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Formal swimming lessons for preschoolers reduce their risk of drowning by 88 percent, the researchers found.”

She continues, and provides reasons kids should be taught to actually swim, not just float or hold their breath. Read Nancy Shute’s full article HERE.