Most sports fans spent their summer tracking their favorite baseball teams and the Michael Vick scandal. I lived in isolation in the mountains, preoccupied with a less conventional sport: whitewater ...

Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Adlington emphasises the critical importance of swimming lessons for children, urging parents to prioritise this life-saving skill despite the costs. Double Olympic gold ...

Do you know how to swim well enough to save your life? NPR's Life Kit lays out the five basic water safety and swimming skills that can help prevent drowning. Most Americans, 85%, say they can swim, ...

I have been lucky to work with children throughout my life, and they know things adults spend years trying to figure out. I’ve been everything from au pair to mentor, and despite the snot, sweat, and ...

Melissa Shields described her 3-year-old daughter, Zola, as “cautious” during the few times the toddler had been in a pool. As Saturday's free swimming lesson progressed at the Westbury High School ...

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Elementary school-aged students lined up on red dots in a classroom-like setting prepared to talk about their 4-H projects, which they had worked on for several months. They ...

Kids in the 1970s learned several life skills that modern parenting has pretty much wiped out of children today.