Babies who swim are super kids!
Infants who swim have better balance and can grab and hold objects much more easily than infants who don't learn to swim, a new study shows.
LONDON: Learning to swim early in life gives children impressive skills later in life, according to a new study by experts from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Lancaster University. The scientists found that babies who swim have better balance and can grab and hold objects much more easily than infants who do not learn to swim. In fact, this difference in important skills appeared to hold up even when the children were five years old.
The researchers compared 19 infant swimmers with a similar number of children who did not participate in swimming lessons. The infants had participated in a swimming program for two hours a week from the age of two to three months until the age of seven months. When the children in the two groups were tested at the age of five, the difference in their performance on balance exercises and other physical skills was striking, the researchers note in the scientific journal “Child: Care, Health and Development”. “We saw clearly that the young swimmers were much better at exercises related to balance and the ability to grasp objects,” said Professor Hermundur Sigmundsson, one of the leaders of the study.
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