launching Your Preschooler - Ways to help your child in his first experiences

When I was a small child, my grandfather grew impatient with my efforts at learning to swim. “You ought to take him out to deep water and throw him in,” the old gentleman advocated. “Then he'll learn how to swim. That's what they did to me when I was a boy!”
Fortunately for me, no one took his advice seriously. How successful this method was for him might be judged (though he never mentioned it) by the fact that no man living had ever seen Grandpa venture into deep water. His first experienc...