The Swim Professor

Jim Reiser, M.S.

Have You Seen that the American Academy of Pediatrics UPDATED their Guidelines?

Pediatric Drowning Prevention Guidelines Updated By Chris Emery, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Published: May 24, 2010 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner Action Points  

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May 24, 2010 - 7:36 PM No Comments

WikiHow names “How to Choose a Swim Instructor” a Rising Star

Jim Reiser’s article,  How to Choose a Swim Instructor, was selected as a “Rising Star” and featured on the WikiHow home page under “new articles.” By the way, Swim Lessons University’s feature of the week is “Bathtub Baby 101,” How to Make Bath Time Your Baby’s First Swimming Lesson, and it is discounted this week [...]

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December 15, 2009 - 3:06 PM No Comments

N.Y. Times Co., About.com, publishes article on Swim Lessons and Dunking Babies

Dunking Infants and Babies is always a big topic of discussion when it comes to learn-to-swim and swimming lessons for infants and toddlers.    Should baby swimmers or toddler swimmers be dunked or not? View my recent article on About.com and the five rules I train swim instructors to follow when it comes to Infant-toddler swim [...]

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December 10, 2009 - 5:59 PM No Comments

The Best Christmas Gift of all . . . Save an infant or toddler’s life!

Did you know that over half of all drownings for babies occur in bath tubs?  According to Safe Kids world wide, that is a fact.   View my FREE YouTube video on Drowning Prevention & Water Safety for infants, toddlers, and young children. Because we KNOW that infants and toddlers are drowning  in the winter too [...]

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December 4, 2009 - 3:44 PM No Comments

Watch my new YouTube video from Bathtub Baby 101

Take a few minutes to check out some free video footage from my brand new Bathtub Baby 101 DVD!  Just click Bathtub Baby 101 and you’ll get to watch my wife Heather and I get our 4-month old baby Nolan, ready for his first swimming lesson by using the bathtub. If you have a newborn [...]

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November 17, 2009 - 3:44 PM Comment (1)

How to Teach Our Children About Water Safety

How to Teach Our Children About Water Safety from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit Did you know that in the United States, drowning takes more lives than any other accident for children 5 & under? For children ages 6 – 14, drowning is the second leading cause of accidental death [...]

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November 6, 2009 - 1:20 PM No Comments

New “Teaching Babies Better” video NOW IN STOCK!

If you have already purchased your copy of the new “Teaching Babies Better” DVD, it will be shipped this week! One of the 22 Success Strategies  in my brand video that I think you’ll really enjoy watching is how you can prevent your new infants and toddler swimmers from becoming  upset.  As you know, keeping [...]

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November 1, 2009 - 10:02 PM No Comments

How to Use Bath Time as Your Baby’s First Swimming Lesson

How to Use Bath Time As Your Baby’s First Swimming Lesson from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit How to Use Bath Time . . . Your Baby’s First Swimming Lesson! What Every Parent Should Know. Steps AS a new parent, you want to do everything you can to protect your [...]

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October 11, 2009 - 5:06 PM No Comments