Are you a parent who wants to keep your kids safe this summer? The best thing you can do is teach them to swim. I say this as a nonalarmist mom dedicated to actual safety, instead of security theater ...

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Swimming With Deonco, the newly-launched free swim lessons currently underway at the South Charleston Community Center, have so far garnered much interest following the ...

Children with autism are 160 times more likely to drown than their neurotypical peers. Children with autism are 160 times more likely to drown than their neurotypical peers, according to the Autism ...

With the weather getting warmer, families will start heading to the beach, and next month, the city will open its many outdoor pools for the season. So the USA Swimming Foundation is touring the ...

Dear Heloise: We live in Arizona, and my husband wanted to put a pool in our backyard. I agreed only if all three kids learned to swim and my husband agreed to teach them. Three years after the pool ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics has changed its policy on swim lessons for small children, and says new evidence shows kids ages 1-4 may be less likely to drown if they have had formal swimming ...

Emma Koelpin, 13, eyes a shot as she challenges her brother Elijah,11, to a game of poolside basketball. Beckie Koelpin joined her children and grandchild for swimming fun in the sun and water at the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Some of the best swimmers on the planet are from right here on the First Coast. And while swimming is a sport that can lead someone to the top of the podium, it's also an activity ...

In the drowning prevention community, we dread hearing the other F-word: floaties. These seemingly innocuous devices give responsible parents a false sense of security with the assumption that the ...

Kelly Ann Kinney is not your average swim teacher. Although she's giving lessons this summer to a group of children at the Lake Johnson Pool, Kinney is actually a Raleigh police officer who has traded ...