Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Avio
• VHS Release Date: June 6, 1997
• Run Time: 35 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304907133
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,111 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Honey Lanning is a professional swim instructor and former Junior Gold Olympics team member who works today with young children. In this step-by-step instructional video, she gives parents advice on teaching their toddlers to swim. With obvious expertise, Lanning covers such important topics as establishing trust, going underwater, developing a good kick, changing direction in the water, and learning to grab the side of the pool. There are many useful tips here--for instance, placing a shiny object on the pool bottom for the child to focus on will help keep his head in the right position. Unfortunately, too much of the video seems like an amateurish infomercial. You'll have to wade through numerous parent testimonies about how Honey helped their children swim. Keep your finger on the fast-forward button to skip these sections, and you may come away with some excellent ideas for safely teaching young children a lifelong love of the water. --Elisabeth Keating

From Parents'Choice®

Don' t limit this well presented video to the one to three year old intended audience. Older landlubbers will jump right in to these easy to watch swimming lessons. A 1999 Parents' Choice® Approval. (Parents' Choice®)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Honey taught me how to swim, December 17, 2009

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LISA Z. (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Swimming for Toddlers [VHS] (VHS Tape)

When I was 2-3 yrs old my mother would take me to swimming classes with Honey. Of course I don't remember much (it was 26 yrs ago) but I learned how to swim really fast and have always loved the water. She was an excellent teacher. I just had my first child a year ago and wanted to see if Honey still taught but unfortunately I learned that she had passed away. It is a shame. I heard she was working on a updated DVD that she never had the chance to make. I bought her VHS in hopes to learn from her so I could teach my kids. I haven't had the chance to watch it because I need to find a VHS player but wanted to review her tape anyway because she was the best of the best.