https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 05 May 2026 17:54:40 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/private-vs-group-swim-lessons#post-2573454 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:35:23 +0000 KayKay 2573454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What's the ratio? Our Y has group lessons that are technically 4 kids:1 teacher, but the last two sessions we have done, they have been training people so DDs classes have had 2 (or even 3!) teachers. I think 4:1 is a bit too long of a break in between turns and ends up not being that productive, but 2:1 was perfect. </p> <p>Do you have a semi-private/smaller group option that might split the difference?</p> <p>If not, I'd try to decide whether she just needs more practice (in which case more lessons might be better) vs. more instruction (in which case individual instruction might be good)!</p> <p>The biggest difference I found for us was in taking the accelerated lessons (class everyday for a week) -- we don't do THAT much swimming in between lessons usually, so going everyday was way more reinforcing than once/week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/private-vs-group-swim-lessons#post-2573318 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:19:20 +0000 Maysprout 2573318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So private lessons are obv a lot more expensive but if you've done both are they worth it? </p> <p>My oldest would be one of the older ones in the 3-5 age group of the group lessons. She is decent in the water, she just needs to work a bit more on coordinating all the movements but she can go the length of the pool and more in a combo of swimmingish / dog paddle.<br /> So not sure if it would be worth it to do fewer lessons with a private instructor or more lessons where the focus is probably going to be on basics she already has down but could maybe finese? </p>