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The aim of this longitudinal study was to determine how children’s participation in swim lessons impacts parents’ appraisals of children’s drowning risk and need for supervision. Parents with 2–5-year old children enrolled in community swim lessons completed the same survey measures up to 4 times over an 8-month period. Multilevel regression analyses examining temporal relationships between parents’ perceptions of their child’s swim ability, supervision needs around water, and children’s ability to keep themselves safe in drowning risk situations revealed that as children progressed through swim lessons, parents’ perceptions of their child’s swim ability and their belief that children are capable of keeping themselves safe around water increased. Further, the relation between parents’ perceptions of swim ability and judgments of children’s supervision needs was mediated through …