Kathy Welch

Patience

What is your secret to remaining patient while you teach, please?

New comment 6d ago

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No secret, i fail at it all the time, With my older kids i have them swim a lap while i take a breath. And recently with one of my younger kids we now have water gun fights between skill sets lol

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Petition

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New comment 6d ago

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Done

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New class drop.

Someone asked me for my thoughts on teaching parent-child classes, so I took a minute and put this together. If you teach little ones in the water and want a clearer framework for coaching parents, building confidence, and creating better class flow, this is for you. Under Classroom, it is the first one on page 3

New comment 5d ago

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Perfect timing. My boss was just talking about if we were going to do some parent and me classes this summer. This will definitely help me give her a better idea of how to best do it and schedule it. Can’t wait to go through it.

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I’m upset

I understand Infant Swimming Research but I have never seen a training where they throw the baby in the pool and then touch the baby shoulders and submerge them underwater, then put their wet jacket over their face. It was just to much- and back to back…

New comment 6d ago

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I hate when videos like this gain traction and start circulating. First off totally agree it TOO much and fairly unrealistic. And secondly it makes parents paranoid that that’s what all instructors are going to do to their kids if they aren’t watching. Several of my newer parents hovered a ton more this past week than they did at the first lesson and I’m thinking this video popping up everywhere might have contributed to that.

Mar 4 •

Quick roll call

I’m realizing I’ve been the main poster here, and I want this to become a real working community—not a feed. Comment with 3 quick things: 1. I’m a: (lifeguard / instructor / manager / owner / vendor / other) 2. My biggest stuck point right now is: ____ 3. I can help others with: ____ No long answers needed—1 sentence each.

New comment Mar 11

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@Tabetha Napier the work culture/atmosphere at my place of employment and the fact that they are reactive not proactive to problems that are easily forseen. Such as all the swim instructors are highschool and college kids so once school started back I have been the only instructor.

0 likes • Mar 4

@Tabetha Napier I want to be you when I grow up ...lol but for real I'm in Arkansas and around here lifeguarding is viewed as a blow off job for teens that doesn't really matter to the point that the few we get that actually like it and care end up apathetic towards it because they are basically taught that there is no future in it or connection to other potential things. I wish someone like you had been around in my teen and college years to point out a direction that would connect in the future.

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