Product Details

• Actors: Miss Bea with 25 babies and children swimming
• Directors: Beatriz Skeens
• Format: Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Swim Bea Productions
• DVD Release Date: November 27, 2005
• Run Time: 35 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000P6RARK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,621 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Oh it's a wonderful video! We just introduced young Wyatt (6 1/2 months old) to the water at the pool yesterday after watching the video and it went wonderfully! Thank you for this wonderful resource! You're very thorough and clear; and I am highly encouraged and feel alot safer about the whole infant in the water issue having seen it in action on your video as opposed to simply talk among other new moms. --Sally Hutchinson. Claxton, Georgia

I have been a supporter of Miss Bea's swim program for over 20 years. The new DVD, Learn to Swim with Miss Bea, is an important addition to every baby layette. Miss Bea's comprehensive, easy to follow swim lesson program for parents and swim instructors teaches infants and children how to swim and be safe in the water. Knowing how to swim is important for both survival and enjoyment in the water. The DVD gives you step by step techniques and strategies that you can use in the bathtub and in your swimming pool and that can be a supplement for any formal swimming lessons program. There is not guarantee that a drowning situation can be avoided 100%, but with this program, parents can be confident that you are training your child to be safe around the water. Do everything you can to make your child water safe! --William P Bristol MD FAAP St. Simons Island, Georgia

Learn to Swim with Miss Bea, is a very useful, easy-to-understand thirty-minute DVD that presents a complete swim program for children four months to six years old. The program itself teaches basic swimming skills in fun ways that keep the kiddies interested and engaged. If you have a lick of sense about a child's safety and survival in water you should get the DVD and do what Miss Bea says. You will not regret it. --Harry Kelly, video reviewer for SPLASH, a quarterly magazine in Glynn County, Georgia

Product Description

Babies 3 months old to children 6 year old demonstrate the step-by step swimming lessons with their parents. Three children are shown from 4 months to four years old, through a three year period so that you can see how they improve in their swimming skills. There are a total of 25 children demonstrating the swimming lesson skills. Not only is it an instructional video for parents and swim instructors but when children see the other children going under water, kicking, floating, jumping in and turning to the wall, all the while playing games with their parents, they want to do it too! The easy to follow step by step instructions are clearly demonstrated and repeated according to age ability and aptitude. You will feel confident in teaching your child to swim.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is THE video to get, July 5, 2010

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Daniele - See all my reviews

This review is from: Learn to Swim with Miss Bea - A Nadar con la Maestra Beatriz (DVD)

Before my son was born I spent a lot of time researching and reading anything and everything on which I could get my hands. I used to be a life guard and a swimming instructor for all levels of swimming and I think this is a terrific video with well thought out, clear, and well demonstrated instructions for what to do and how to do it. Yes, it is only 27 minutes long or so, but you don't need it to be longer. It'll help any parent work with their child (ages 0 to about 6) in and around the water. With enough practice of the techniques that are shown, the child could learn to propel him/herself in the water [shouldn't expect a child under 3 to hold their head above water while swimming/doing a doggy paddle -it is too heavy in proportion to their body, and so infants and toddlers swim with their head down].
No other video currently in the market (July 2010) compares. A very good book to complement this video, especially if you have infants/toddlers, is How to Teach Your Baby to Swim: From Birth to Age Six. I also used the techniques in this book (most of which can be watched in Ms. Bea's video) since my baby was born and he never had a problem with water in his face or in his ears.
There's only one small aspect of this video that I don't like and it is the instructor saying that if you can teach your child/infant to float on their back, they could potentially save themselves if they fell in the water. It doesn't keep me from recommending the video but parents should know that right now there is only one program that can help an infant/toddler survive if they fell in the water with no-one around and that is ISR [Infant Swimming Resource [...]]. No YMCA or Red Cross swim lessons could help an infant/toddler with that because there is a lot more to water survival for this age group than knowing how to swim or float. Enrolling my 13 month old in ISR was the best thing I could've done [but I didn't find out about ISR until he was almost a year]. My son is now 19 months and with ISR he learned to propel himself under water, roll onto his back and float when he needs to take a breath/rest, and roll back to swim under water until he reaches me, the shore, the stairs, or the wall. ISR starts with children as young as 6 months to 6 years. As any parent knows, supervision is not perfect and so I'm thankful he can do this even though I watch him like a hawk in and around the water (any parent would). It is a gentle program. Sure, he cried during his 10 minute lessons each time, but he also cries to be taken out of the car seat and when he has to get a shot. Now he's less than 2 years old and is a little fish in the water. He has so much fun and I can tell he's so proud of his skills. The ISR lessons were worth every penny. He still watches Ms. Bea's video himself just for fun at least once a week. He asks for it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great teaching tool, August 29, 2009

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Amy Moravec (Bryan, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learn to Swim with Miss Bea - A Nadar con la Maestra Beatriz (DVD)

We really liked this DVD. It has great lessons to help you teach your child how to swim. My son watched this with us and he used the ideas and began swimming this summer. I began using these techniques on our baby and she loves the water and does not mind the occasional dunk - with the DVDs described warning.