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Swimming Instructor. Jack Buckler advocates drown-proofing children at an early age. This way parents can build their backyard pool when they want, in(...)
Swimming Instructor. Jack Buckler advocates drown-proofing children at an early age. This way parents can build their backyard pool when they want, in(...)

Swimming Instructor. Jack Buckler advocates drown-proofing children at an early age. This way parents can build their backyard pool when they want, in(...)

Date7/27/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Swimming Instructor. Jack Buckler advocates drown-proofing children at an early age. This way parents can build their backyard pool when they want; instead of waiting until youngsters are school age; he points out. As her sister and neighborhood friends watch; Laurel Boylen; 3; flies from Buckler's arms into her parents' pool in Forest Hill. Laurel started swimming lessons in June and could swim the length of the pool after 6 weeks.
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Buckler advises that children get swimming instruction 'as soon as they can sit up
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