Benjamin Roberts is an experienced Swimming instructor, School Teacher and Lifeguard who has combined his first class knowledge of teaching beginners to swim with his professional understanding of how children learn in order to write this book which will help parents, step parents, grand parents and anyone else who wants to teach their child to swim. It goes from the very beginning, building confidence to swimming front crawl and breathing. Ben has a wonderful way of getting his theory across in his classes and this is quite evident in his writing style. It has been written in a very 'reader friendly' way with wonderful illustrations to support the text. Quite simply, this book will teach you how to teach your child to swim and it will do so in an enjoyable way. Teaching your child to swim is something any parent can do, given the knowledge to do so. It will give you a wonderful sense of achievement.