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Minor Issues: Why you should get someone else to teach your kids to swim
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Here’s the mother of all reasons to send your kids into the swimming pool. It is the one place on earth where they cannot play Roblox.
ST ILLUSTRATION: CEL GULAPA
Raymond Goh
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SINGAPORE – A swim coach once told me: If your child lives on an island, she ought to learn to swim.
Before you nod approvingly at how this piece of seemingly sagely aphorism deserves a place on an inspirational Instagram post, preferably with a sunset silhouette of father-and-daughter duo frolicking at the beach, let me explain why it makes no sense at all.
