As a teenager in high school in Southern California, I took swimming as one of my physical education classes. The first day the teacher assessed everyone’s ability level. He discovered that two of our ...

As parents, we want to know how to teach our babies to swim because the desire to see, feel or hear water is universal. People from all walks of life seek its soothing yet refreshing nature. Water ...

DEAR HELOISE: We live in Arizona, and my husband wanted to put a pool in our backyard. I agreed only if all three kids learned to swim and my husband agreed to teach them. Three years after the pool ...

In honor of National Water Safety Month, Pool Scouts has partnered with the Hope Floats Foundation to donate more than 1,500 swim lessons for children living in poverty. Local Pool Scouts Owner, Shane ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A local nonprofit that provides kids from low-income backgrounds with free swimming lessons needs more financial support after seeing an increase in sign ups. Stages of ...

NAVAJO DAM, N.M. — Turning tragedy into something positive. That’s what one family in the Four Corners has done after they lost their 6-year-old son in 2014. He drowned during a trip to Navajo Lake to ...

The article on Public Health's Water Watchers program was very timely. My heart goes out to all the families who have lost a child to drowning. I would like to add that swimming lessons at an early ...