19-month-old Daviana and her mother are taking the parent-child swim class at the YMCA.
“We have a boat and we go to the beach a lot. Daddy likes to fish, so we want to make sure our daughter can swim very well,” her father said.
Swimming is an important — and potentially lifesaving — skill: drowning is the leading cause of unintentional injury death for children ages 1 to 4 in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…