[mckenzie7]

My parents bought me a bicycle and I rode it to the river and also the beach. (Also rode it to school when there wasn't any snow plus countless errands for my parents) Learned to swim by myself.

Bicycle = $60.00

Swimsuit = $10.00

Life time investment = $70.00

[Valpal1]

All of my kids learned to swim as pre-schoolers, well before their training wheels came off.

Plus, not every child lives in a water blessed environment. Where I grew up in Montana, there was no water deeper than 10 inches that wasn’t infested with leeches, snapping turtles and very tasty catfish with really nasty spines on their fins.

Thus my parents parted with coin to send my sibs and I to a summer camp at a lake to be taught.