Friday, October 14, 2005
Swimming and Yoga for tots?
Parents keen to give their children a good start in life are looking to yoga, swimming and developmental play classes for their tots. And in the US, these are seen as a way to ward off obesity.
Classes such as this - and swimming for infants, active play courses and fitness lessons for pre-schoolers - are starting to spring up across the UK, echoing an established trend in the United States.
Francoise Barbira Freedman, the author of Baby Yoga and founder of Birthlight, a charity which runs infants' yoga and aquatic classes, says the sessions don't make babies physically fit.
"These activities are not done to babies, they are done with babies. The aim is to help parents bond with their new child, and to instil an enjoyment of exercise from the start of life."
