Advantages and disadvantages of children learning to swim
Benefits of children learning to swim:
1, which is helpful to stimulate and promote the development of children's cranial nerves: the cerebral nerves are connected with peripheral nerves in various parts of the body, so when children move freely in water, all kinds of actions are directly controlled and regulated by the nervous system, and the activities of muscles and joints in turn stimulate the cerebral cortex nerves, thus promoting the development of brain functions and making the brain more agile in responding to actions.
2. Help children become smarter in the process of growing up: In fact, children swim mainly by instinct, and this exercise of instinct is also very important for children. Through the influence of this water on children's skin, it will promote children's brain development, make children more aware of this external environment, and let this external condition stimulate children's brain, which can stimulate children's potential and intellectual development, which is very beneficial to children's growth.
3. It is helpful to improve the sensitivity of children's sensory cells and the coordination of their bodies: when children swim, under the joint action of various external factors such as water temperature, hydrostatic pressure, buoyancy and water wave impact, they cause a series of benign reactions of children's skin and joints, including the nervous system and endocrine system, and strengthen the stimulation of children's sensory system, thus improving their response ability and promoting the coordination of various organs to complete various actions.
4, help to promote children's digestion and absorption of food, reduce some bad sleep habits: children keep exercising while swimming, the impact of water waves can make children physically and mentally comfortable, mentally relaxed, and children's insulin level increases significantly, thus increasing gastrointestinal peristalsis and helping food digestion and absorption, thus increasing appetite, and swimming will also consume certain physical strength. Therefore, children sleep better after swimming, which is conducive to the establishment of regular sleep.
Disadvantages of children learning to swim:
1, which may cause the child's cervical spine injury: the child's whole body bones are not mature, especially the fragile neck. However, children have to rely on it to support the weight of the whole body when swimming, and they have to jump in the water, which is likely to hurt the spinal nervous system.
2. There are some safety hazards: when swimming, the collar only holds the place where the child's head and neck are connected, and does not press the neck. But the child grows very fast, maybe today is just right, but it will be tight in a few days, so there are not so many collar sizes to make the child's collar stuck in the perfect position. Most importantly, if the collar is large, it will be easily stuck and there is a danger of drowning. If the collar is small, it will compress the child's trachea and arteries.
3. When a child swims, there may be water in his ears: if the child stays in the water, parents should strictly prevent water from entering his ears, because the child has a large amount of exercise when swimming, and his ears are prone to water, which is likely to cause otitis media.
Reading: When summer comes, will your children consider going swimming? Swimming can promote children's brain development and keep fit. So, what is the best age for children to learn to swim?
Children learning to swim is a test of physical strength and endurance. If your child is 4 to 8 years old, that is the best age! Next, let's look at the benefits and precautions of children's swimming.
The best age for children to learn to swim.
4 to 8 years old is the best age to learn swimming.
The water temperature of 30 degrees Celsius is most suitable for beginners. He analyzed that children have the instinct to hold their breath in their mother's womb, and with the growth of age, this instinct to hold their breath will fade and be forgotten. He once put his nine-month-old son into the water, and his son instinctively held his breath. Of course, children are too young, immature and have poor ability to accept instructions, so they are not suitable for learning to swim.
Children aged 4 to 8 have made great progress in their physical condition, learning ability and interest in learning. The instinct to hold your breath has not been completely forgotten, and it is easy to learn once reminded. But also in the study time is more guaranteed.
Benefits of children's swimming
1. Swimming is a complex action under the control of the brain, which can also improve the function of the brain in the process of swimming, showing that the brain responds quickly to the external environment and develops well in intelligence.
2, children often swim can make the heart muscle developed, the metabolism is vigorous, and the heartbeat is slower and stronger than that of children of the same age, which prepares the conditions for undertaking greater physical load.
3. Children often swim, and the function of the respiratory system has also been improved, which is characterized by large vital capacity and long breath-holding time.
4, frequent swimming will consume too much fat, using the muscles of all parts of the body to make the body symmetrical and fit.
5. Regular swimming can also improve children's ability to resist cold and disease.
6. But at the same time, there are some potential dangers in swimming, so parents should take precautions and strictly supervise and prevent them.
Precautions for children swimming
1. Children must be accompanied by their parents when swimming. According to the children's water quality, age, height and other factors, try to choose the water level area with high safety factor. And there should be a step-by-step study plan suitable for children's characteristics to make children interested in swimming, so as to achieve the purpose of promoting exercise.
2. Before swimming in the water, you must educate your children to get into the habit of doing warm-up activities first, exercise their limbs and wipe their bodies with cold water to adapt to the water temperature.
3, the child's physical strength is limited, so the time in the water should not be too long. When you feel tired or uncomfortable, you should take your child ashore immediately to avoid accidents.
Children should not eat too much food before entering the water. Once food is pressed into the trachea, it is easy to cause suffocation. In order to replenish their physical strength, parents can choose to give their children something to eat half an hour before swimming, and don't be hungry or full.
5, children should not immediately enter the pool when sweating, should first dry the sweat with a dry towel, and then enter the pool after the pores shrink.
6. Swimsuit, swimming cap, etc. It should be suitable, and don't choose a swimming cap or a swimsuit that needs to be tied around the neck to avoid accidents. You can also give your child a pair of earplugs to prevent otitis media caused by water.
7. After swimming, you can wash your eyes with normal saline or use special eye drops to protect your eyes.
8. Be sure to clean your body after swimming to avoid the chemicals in the swimming pool water leaving on your skin and causing skin allergies. At the same time, in order to avoid the erosion of teeth by bleaching powder in swimming pool water, you can brush your teeth or rinse your mouth immediately after swimming.
9. Children should not swim within 1 ~ 2 weeks after they have recovered from a cold.