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Reality check.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
When you first read it, the argument against toddler swimming lessons seems like an absurd joke. In essence, the argument goes that toddlers shouldn't start swimming lessons until they are 4 because such lessons might make them more likely to drown.
Ridiculous, maybe. But the group behind that argument, the American Academy of Pediatrics, is quite serious, not to mention respected.
That such an argument runs counter to basic logic and what most aquatics professionals know firsthand seems not to matter.
No, what matters to the 60,000 pediatricians who make up the AAP is one thing: research. There simply is none to prove that toddlers who have swimming lessons are less likely to drown.
Tempting as it is, we shouldn't discount the AAP. Not because its argument has merit, but because it carries weight, lots of it.
Thus, the industry should get together and provide pediatricians with the research necessary to sway them in the other direction. To say that there is a dearth of such research is an understatement--the AAP bases its argument on ...
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