What are the benefits of children learning to swim?

Many people like swimming and understand the benefits of swimming exercise. In fact, there are also great benefits for children to learn to swim. For example, it can exercise children's cardiopulmonary function, make children more resistant to disease, and maintain a good mood when facing new situations. In addition, it can promote vitamin absorption and exercise children's good physical and mental coordination. Let’s talk about it in detail below!

Studies show that swimming is healthier and more resistant to childhood illnesses, including colds, and gives children better coordination and balance, helping them to become more proficient in motor skills. In addition, it will enable children to have better social skills to cooperate with others, integrate into the group more quickly, and more easily overcome the disappointment caused by their peers.

Proper swimming can bring children a strong physique, good physical coordination and healthy emotional development. Even the youngest babies know they are doing something special when they jump in the water, and they love doing it. Isn’t mental health essentially the ability to feel proud of your own achievements and to approve of yourself?

Research has found that children's complex swimming movements are completed under the control of the brain. Swimming exercise can improve brain function, promote the brain's response to the external environment and intellectual development.

When swimming, the body is in a horizontal position in the water, and the joints of the limbs and the spine will not be directly impacted by the reaction force from the ground during movement. This not only makes it less prone to injury, but also helps to improve the flexibility and toughness of the skeletal system, better promotes bone growth and development, and corrects bad posture.

When swimming, the impact of water on the skin can act as a good massage. Swimming can also promote the development of children's cardiopulmonary function. Swimming can also have the effect of sunbathing and prevent children from getting rickets. It should be noted here that when children are swimming, safety issues must not be ignored. Parents should accompany them throughout the process to prevent accidents from happening to their children.