The Daimiel City Council has organized aquatic-sports sessions that have brought together nearly 700 schoolchildren from the town. The initiative aims to promote physical exercise and fun in the aquatic environment, offering a free healthy leisure alternative for young people. For families, this represents an opportunity for children to reduce screen time and adopt active habits from an early age.
A pool as a digital habits laboratory 🏊
From a technical point of view, the activity uses the aquatic environment as a space for controlled digital disconnection. By not requiring electronic devices, schoolchildren are forced to interact face-to-face and develop motor skills in an unfamiliar environment. The organization has divided the participants into rotating groups to optimize the use of time and water resources, applying efficiency criteria that could be transferred to other municipal structured leisure programs.
Less WiFi, more water polo: the municipal recipe 🤽
While at home children argue over the phone charger, in Daimiel they have discovered that a municipal pool can be more addictive than TikTok. Of course, the monitors warn: the only allowed screen is the water, and the only like that counts is not swallowing chlorine. At least, until the whistle blows to go back to school.