Teach them safety for life — starting in the water.

Little swimmers. Big safety.

One-on-One Survival Swim Instruction

Every child is unique — and every child deserves the skills to stay safe in and around the water, no matter their age. Our private, individualized ISR lessons are customized to match your child’s specific needs, pace, and personality. With focused, one-on-one instruction, your child learns vital self-rescue skills step by step while building confidence, safety, and independence with every lesson.

Refresher lessons

Children grow and change quickly during their early years, and their swim skills should grow with them. Refresher lessons are shorter sessions designed for students who have already completed ISR training and need to keep their skills sharp. These lessons help reinforce self-rescue techniques, adjust for changes in size and coordination, and ensure your child stays confident and capable in the water year after year.

Maintenance lessons

Maintenance lessons offer ongoing practice for children after completing their initial ISR training. These short, regular sessions—whether weekly, monthly, or seasonally—help keep self-rescue skills sharp and support lasting confidence and safety in the water. Contact us to find the maintenance schedule that’s right for your child!

FAQs
Why don’t parents participate in the water during the lessons?
We do not want the baby to initially associate the water with the love, attention, and affection of the parent while in the water. Also, it takes incredible concentration and objectivity to teach the baby how to respond to an aquatic emergency and our experience shows that parents often find it too difficult to be objective to be effective teachers with their own children in the water. We gladly invite parents to join us in the pool once their child has independent skills to practice at home.
Will my child need additional lessons?
Based on our research, we know that refresher lessons are important because children change so much both cognitively and physically during the first 0-5 years of life. It is important that their water survival skills grow with their bodies. Frequency depends on the child's age, growth rate, skill level and confidence level. The goal of refresher lessons is to help your child adjust his/her new body size and weight to his/her existing skill level. Your instructor will work with your child to help fine-tune his or her aquatic experience to assist with building efficiency, which will result in self-confidence. This is especially important if your child has not been able to practice any appropriate aquatic skill between seasons.
Why do you have the children swim in clothes?
Because 86% of children who fall in the water do so fully clothed, we want our students to have experience with such a situation. If a child has experienced the sensations of being in the water in clothing prior to an emergency situation, he/she is less likely to experience panic and be able to focus on the task at hand. If you have ever jumped in the water with clothes on, then you know that there is a significant difference in weight and feel with clothes as opposed to a bathing suit.
Do you have children that just can’t learn the skills?
No. Every child can learn. It is my job to find the best way to communicate the information so that it makes sense to the child. I set your child up to be successful every time you bring them to me. I start where they are and through consistent lessons, we see progress.

Because every child deserves the skills to survive

and the confidence to swim.

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