Kids can pick up new skills very quickly, but sometimes it’s better not to start too early, like with swimming. Water safety experts recommend starting swimming lessons not before the age of 5, when your child has reached pre-school age. Instead of teaching them yourself, you should consider enrolling your kids in a class. “Parents are experts for their children, but not necessarily experts in teaching them to swim,” says Harald Rehn from the German Lifesaving Association (DLRG). Even if parents consider their own swimming skills to be good, they should leave the teaching to trained swimming i…