When I had my 3rd child, the hospital made us watch about 2 hours of different videos about dealing with a < 1yr old child. I found this particularly interestin

When I had my 3rd child, the hospital made us watch about 2 hours of different videos about dealing with a < 1yr old child. I found this particularly interesting because: 1) It made perfect sense. You have to demonstrate a certain level of competence to get a driver's license, why not a child also? 2) For child #1 & #2 they just let us take them out of the hospital, which really felt surreal. Sort of like "Don't they know we have no idea what we're doing?" Anyway, the point of that is to say that it probably makes sense to include something about swimming into those videos. Or to have the equivalent of annual "professional development" training for parents to educate them on the issues facing them in the next year of their kid's development. Not required, that would be difficult to accomplish. But strongly encouraged & nudged repeatedly. Heck I can't go a year at my job without annual computer security educational programs to refresh staff on safe computing protocols, but parents are left flying blind to piece things together based on their own experiences growing up & whatever they've absorbed from pop media.