Personalized ISR Lessons Tailored to Your Child
Each lesson is carefully designed around your child’s individual needs and abilities, helping them safely build skills and confidence in the water.
One-on-One Survival Swim Instruction
Every child is unique. Our individualized, private ISR lessons are tailored to your child's unique needs, pace, and personality. We provide focused attention on your child, helping them learn self-rescue skills step-by-step while building confidence as they go!
Refreshers for Returning Swimmers
Children grow and develop rapidly during early childhood, and their swim skills need to adjust as they grow. Refresher lessons are shorter sessions, designed for students who have already completed ISR lessons and need to keep their skills fresh. These classes reinforce their survival skills, adjust for growth and changes in their proportions, and keep your little one confident and capable in the water year after year.
Maintenance Lessons for Practice
Maintenance lessons provide continued practice for children following their initial ISR lessons. Regularly scheduled weekly or even monthly lessons help keep your child's skills fresh while supporting long-term confidence and safety. Contact us to see what maintenance schedule makes sense for your little one!
Your Child’s Personal Water Safety Instructor
Survival Swim Lessons are carefully tailored to your child’s age, development, and individual skill level.
Children 12 months and younger learn critical water survival skills including breath control, rolling onto their back, and floating independently to rest and breathe until help arrives.
Children 12 months and older learn a sequence of lifesaving skills: swimming, rolling onto their back to float and breathe, and then flipping back over to continue swimming until they can reach safety.
Each skill is taught step-by-step in a gentle, encouraging environment so your child can build confidence, independence, and life-saving water safety skills.
FAQs
Will my child fear the water because of lessons?
There is an important difference between being fearful and being apprehensive because you are not yet
skilled in a new environment. ISR is not like traditional swim lessons; it is a drowning prevention program
that teaches survival swimming. Sometimes as a parent, you make choices for your child’s safety, like
sitting in a car seat, because you know they are important. The same can be said for ISR.
Fun can be defined as when skill meets challenge. Once competent in their skills, many children cannot
be dragged away from the pool. They are having entirely too much FUN.
I hear you say your priority is survival skills. Will my child learn to actually swim?
Yes. At ISR, we believe that part of survival for a child who can walk is swimming. Children learn the
swim-float-swim sequence so that they could get themselves to safety. The difference in our program is
that they will learn swimming AND survival skills and how to be an aquatic problem solver.
If more frequent but shorter lessons are better, then why don’t you teach 7 days/week?
Everyone needs a little break from learning to process the information and in this case to give muscles a
chance to recover. In addition, you need to be able to spend time with your family, as does your
instructor. Weekends are family time. Periodically, if weather or other issues have cause lessons to be
canceled for numerous days, your instructor may choose to offer make-up lessons on a weekend. This is
strictly up to the instructor and based on the availability of parents.
How do the kids react during the first few lessons?
Children often fuss during the first few lessons because they are in a new environment and around new
people. As your child becomes more confident in his/her ability in the water, the fussing will decrease.
It is not unlike the first time you tried a new exercise class or were asked to perform a task at work that
you’d never done before: the first time you try a new task it is always challenging, until you get the hang
of it. It is the same for your young child. Your child is learning to perform a skill that he/she’s never done
before.
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