Swimming can help children build self-confidence and support their ability to self-discipline. (Green Shoot Media photo) Water fun and summer seem to go hand in hand. So, getting the kids swimming ...

In an airy indoor pool with fish cutouts on the walls, a group of small children bobbed, floated and tentatively flutter-kicked.It was what it looked like, a starter swimming class. But here, ...

Benjamin Franklin famously said that little strokes fell great oaks. And while he obviously wasn't referring to swimming strokes, the same principle applies to learning to swim as to knocking down a ...

Every year, about 900 children die from accidental drowning in the United States. This is largely in part due to lack of access to swimming lessons, living far from bodies of water and lack of ...

FALL RIVER — Summer fun goes better with water — but what if kids can’t swim? The state Department of Conservation and Recreation can fix that for free. The DCR is offering free swimming lessons for ...

The children's section of the beach wasn't big enough to hold all the little ones looking to cool off at Houghton's Pond.Lifeguards were letting some kids swim outside the ropes, but calling them back ...

The DEM is offering another round of grants to providers of swim lessons for kids from minority or low-income backgrounds.