![]() ![]() Her swim school encourages parents to come into the pool room and be with their children, or at least watch them from the observation lobby. It’s vital to teach the parent to be with their baby in the water.” “It’s a life skill that must be nurtured and formed correctly. Swimming lessons “aren’t for keeping kids occupied for a couple hours,” McCabe said. Children are cooed to as their private instructor dips their heads underwater and shows them how to dive for pool toys, all for about 15 minutes, maximum. McCabe, who teaches swimming lessons to special needs children in Lafayette, said her method is gentle and individualized. “The Baby Swim Book” became Young’s handbook for instruction as she was forming her business. Young’s lessons are structured after a Boulder woman named Janet McCabe, who wrote a book on teaching toddlers to swim. “But it’s the best method, they find, when their toddler is cutting through the water in two months.” “People are wary when they hear that the lesson only lasst 10 minutes,” Young said. The baby swim program is organized into 10-minute, individual lessons twice a week. One is a lap lane for advanced students, and the other is 90-degree lesson pool for babies who are just learning to swim. was renovated for about $1.5 million and has two climate-controlled pools. ![]() The 8,000-square-foot building at 7655 W. I wouldn’t trust anyone else to do that.” “When my grandson was barely 2 years old, Stacy had him so used to the water, he was like a fish. “I’ve followed her wherever she could get space for eight years,” said Thornton resident Andrea Gile, 67. Though she was constantly on the move, she gained a reputation for getting results, so her clients followed. Young, a Broomfield resident, would cart her students and instructors to different pools and recreation centers all over north metro Denver. “At my house, I had an above-ground, oval pool that was 18 by 34 feet, but we outgrew that in a year.” “I have rented space from all over in the last 13 years,” Young said. The one thing Young, 49, never had was an adequate pool. ![]() She generated a client base of 2,000 students per month by giving private swimming lessons all over Adams and Jefferson Counties. WESTMINSTER - Stacy Young believes she was born to teach children how to swim.įor 30 years, she studied different methods and developed her own tried-and-true techniques to teach backstrokes and breathing to 2-year-olds. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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