Most sports fans spent their summer tracking their favorite baseball teams and the Michael Vick scandal. I lived in isolation in the mountains, preoccupied with a less conventional sport: whitewater ...

Do you know how to swim well enough to save your life? NPR's Life Kit lays out the five basic water safety and swimming skills that can help prevent drowning. Most Americans, 85%, say they can swim, ...

Straight As might look impressive on paper, but they're not what carried a girl through adulthood. If you want to raise a ...

DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. (KTIV) - It’s every parent’s worst nightmare around the water. Your child falling in. Drowning. That nightmare turned into a reality for one Siouxland mom after her young daughter ...

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Elementary school-aged students lined up on red dots in a classroom-like setting prepared to talk about their 4-H projects, which they had worked on for several months. They ...

Melissa Shields described her 3-year-old daughter, Zola, as “cautious” during the few times the toddler had been in a pool. As Saturday's free swimming lesson progressed at the Westbury High School ...

Kids in the 1970s learned several life skills that modern parenting has pretty much wiped out of children today.