{"id":17084,"date":"2012-09-27T16:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17084"},"modified":"2012-09-27T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:49:05","slug":"central-city-ymca-offers-swim-classes-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17084","title":{"rendered":"Central City YMCA Offers Swim Classes For Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY TAMECA JOHNSON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Freelance Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Central City Family Y. M. C. A. is committed to teaching infants and toddlers how to swim by expanding a program currently being offered at other Y. M. C. A. locations across the area.<\/p>\n<p>The program provides swim lessons for children ages six months to three years old.\u00a0 It\u2019s part of a ten lesson course that pairs the child with their parent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want them to get the maximum learning in that time period,\u201d says <strong>Jhonda Johnston<\/strong>, one of the instructors of the class. \u201cMost participants say the class is fantastic.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had children who came in not knowing how to swim, and then began swimming four to five feet across the pool on their own by the end of the session.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The parents serve as their child\u2019s partner in the pool, assisting in floating and other life saving techniques.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnston<\/strong> worked to expand the program to the Central City Y after interacting with elementary school students during the Y.\u00a0 M. C. A.\u2019s recent summer camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the kids had never been in a pool before, so we started teaching them lessons.\u00a0 They learned so quickly and they were good at it!\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a travesty to put a child in a pool with life vest.\u00a0 There\u2019s this idea that we as a people don\u2019t swim.\u00a0 There\u2019s no reason for that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnston<\/strong> joined the Tampa Y. M. C. A. division nearly a year ago.\u00a0 She has 35 years experience, including time spent teaching swimming at Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n<p>The classes are offered during the spring, summer and fall months.\u00a0 Prices range from $75 to $105 and scholarships are available.\u00a0 For more information, call (813) 229-9622.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY TAMECA JOHNSON Freelance Writer The Central City Family Y. M. C. A. is committed to teaching infants and toddlers how to swim by expanding a program currently being offered at other Y. M. C. A. locations across the area. The program provides swim lessons for children ages six months to three years old.\u00a0 It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}