{"id":19,"date":"2026-10-10T11:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/five-ways-to-help-a-nervous-child-in-the-water\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:05:27","slug":"five-ways-to-help-a-nervous-child-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/five-ways-to-help-a-nervous-child-in-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Five ways to help a nervous child in the water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most children who are nervous in the pool are worried about water on their face (sample advice).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Practise at bath time: pour a little water over the back of the head, then let your child do it themselves. Praise the try, not the result.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the pool, stay at their level, keep your voice calm and let them hold the wall as long as they want. Tell the teacher what worries your child; they will plan around it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small steps at bath time and in the pool make the first lessons easier (sample advice).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}