Tell me about your swimming background. For over 15 years I have taught babies, children and adults to swim. I work with water fears to competitive swimmers to first-time lap swimmers. I am also the creator behind Mommies-in-Motion™, a fun water aerobic workout for mommy with baby learning water exploration skills. I am passionate about water aerobics or water workouts for every body at every age.
What are your teaching techniques? Teaching works best when the instructor is firm, fair and fun. The Squidkid Swim Method does this by using what I call valued-based teaching:
- Nurturing in a sensitive environment (value = patience)
- Tasking to follow directions and be present (value = persistence)
- Capitalizing strengths to maximize performance (value = practice)
- Covering pool habits not typically discussed (value = safety)
Tell me about your writing background. I’m also a professional journalist and author of “Fears to Fins: Overcoming Water Fears With Children” available on Amazon.com here for electronic readers. I’ve been published and syndicated in over 50 different print and web-based magazines, sites and newspapers on the topics of autos, outdoors, personal finance, parenting and health/fitness. Here are some clips:
- “4 Reasons to Start Swimming Lessons” – Parenting Magazine
- “How to Deal with Water Trauma” — Parenting Magazine
- “Mistakes Most Youth Make When Buying a Car” – Vehix.com
- “5 Credit Card Lies That Lead to Debt” — Creditopia.com
- “6 Easy Road Trip Rules to Eat By” – Off-road.com
How to Contact. Please send any and all inquires to: katrinacanwrite@yahoo.com. If there is any article in this blog or elsewhere I penned, talk to me about copywrite for buying or using the article.
Hey, nice site! Thanks for posting. I’ll come back.
We’d love to have you join our parenting network. Can I send you an invitation?
Hi Tina: Terrific website. We do enjoy your teaching method in our water aerobics class. It is a wonderful workout. We both know you work hard to make the class interesting & fun.
Thank you, Tina. As they say “KEEP ON TEACHING”.