TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - With this week’s heat wave, many families are seeking relief by taking a dip in the pool or nearby lake. For those families, a safe summer includes learning how to swim for some ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Tragedy has hit Central Virginia not once, but twice this week, with two young children dying after drowning in pools. Preventing drowning takes multiple layers of ...

As parents, we want to know how to teach our babies to swim because the desire to see, feel or hear water is universal. People from all walks of life seek its soothing yet refreshing nature. Water ...

NAVAJO DAM, N.M. — Turning tragedy into something positive. That’s what one family in the Four Corners has done after they lost their 6-year-old son in 2014. He drowned during a trip to Navajo Lake to ...

ANGWIN — Zack Kresge doesn’t remember his grandfather Jeff teaching him to swim as an infant, but the lesson definitely stuck. At age 21, he’s been swimming competitively for 15 years, and this summer ...

Spending warm summer days at the pool as a kid was bliss. My mother took us practically every day. My brothers, friends, and I played games, raced each other, and held cannonball competitions for ...

In the drowning prevention community, we dread hearing the other F-word: floaties. These seemingly innocuous devices give responsible parents a false sense of security with the assumption that the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --You see them respond to disasters, but the American Red Cross also works tirelessly to prevent tragedies by teaching lifesaving skills, including swimming. At the Boys and Girls Club ...

(WSVN) - A group in South Florida is making a splash when it comes to keeping children safe in the water, especially kids with special needs. 7’s Vanessa Medina introduces us to these lifesaving ...

DEAR HELOISE: We live in Arizona, and my husband wanted to put a pool in our backyard. I agreed only if all three kids learned to swim and my husband agreed to teach them. Three years after the pool ...