ISR Parent Guidelines 2024
Thank you for enrolling your child with Infant Swimming Resource. The following Guidelines were outlined and created to allow me to provide the best and safest experience for your child during their participation. Please review the following list carefully
and address all questions to your instructor.
1. Your parent book will be emailed to you. Please read it in its entirety. Especially chapter 4. This book will answer most of your questions and educate you about our method for teaching aquatic self-rescue skills, as well as general water safety and safeguarding your home aquatic environment.
2. You will read in the PRB about the importance of attitude and emotions regarding lessons, so please remember that your child is constantly observing you and taking their emotional cues from you. Maintain a positive, supportive attitude throughout your child’s ISR Lesson experience.
3. Remember, you must bring a signed copy of your child’s ISR National Registration form to your instructor on the first day of lessons. If you cannot locate the original email from ISR that contained this document as an attachment, you can log back onto the ISR National Registration Website and log in to retrieve and print the form.
4. You received with your Confirmation of Registration Clearance email from ISR the “How to complete the BUDS” and the “ISR FULL BUDS” forms as attached documents. (If you cannot locate this email, please contact your instructor and request that he or she email a secondary copy of the documents to you.) Please review the “How to” document, as well as the additional information regarding the BUDS contained within your ISR PRB. The Poolside BUDS will be completed on the pool deck with your instructor. The completion of the POOLSIDE BUDS is required before EVERY lesson. If the BUDS forms are not complete and available to the instructor, your child will not be able to swim that day. This is a requirement of ISR’s insurance and is non-negotiable. Feel free to keep it in your colored folder, a Zip-loc bag or you can do it as a document and show me every day and email me the entire sheet on Fridays.
5. Diet is an important aspect of your child’s ISR Lesson Experience. Your child should not eat or drink milk within 2 hours of their lesson time slot. In addition, infants and toddlers should avoid Apple products throughout their ISR Lessons. Apple products are high in fiber, which can cause gas and bloating that will make the floating and swimming maneuvers practiced during ISR lessons difficult and sometimes painful. Please review the Diet section of your ISR PRB for more information.
6. All children (who are not potty trained) participating in ISR Lessons must wear a swim diaper with elastic around the waist and legs. You must buy a swim diaper with elastic lining. “Huggies” disposable swim diapers are not a substitute. This helps to eliminate fecal and urine contamination of the swimming pool. There is a public bathroom at the Dive Shop
7. For your child’s safety, we require every parent to bring two (2) towels to each lesson. Using two towels on the pool deck helps reduce the risk of spreading communicable diseases. Please read your PRB for more information regarding this protocol.
8. Lesson Fee payments of $100 per week can be placed with your child’s BUDS in the folder you will receive. Payments can be made via cash, Venmo or PayPal.
9. Consistency is crucial when learning self-rescue skills. Bringing your child every day will increase the rate of progress and retention of skills.
- Please give your instructor two weeks' notice before any planned vacations and contact your instructor directly if your child has a prolonged illness.
- If you are unsure as to your child’s ability to safely participate in lessons, call your instructor for verification of your child’s readiness to swim. Children can safely take swim class if they have a runny nose or low-grade temperature (under
100 degrees).
10. Videotaping of Lessons is allowed, however, not the full lesson.
11. Please keep all children, not currently participating in lessons, seated next to you. Do not allow them in or near the water. There are A LOT of dangerous items at the dive shop. It is also distracting and unsafe for the instructor and student in the water if other children are running around or trying to play in the water.
12. NO FOOD OR DRINKS ALLOWED ON THE POOL DECK
13. You can find my BUDS sheets on my website under forms
Michelle Coleman - Mouncey 863-698-6316
[email protected]
Veronica Kerst 863-409-7221
[email protected]
Kerstswim4life.com - to refer to the schedule
Thank you for enrolling your child with Infant Swimming Resource. The following Guidelines were outlined and created to allow me to provide the best and safest experience for your child during their participation. Please review the following list carefully
and address all questions to your instructor.
1. Your parent book will be emailed to you. Please read it in its entirety. Especially chapter 4. This book will answer most of your questions and educate you about our method for teaching aquatic self-rescue skills, as well as general water safety and safeguarding your home aquatic environment.
2. You will read in the PRB about the importance of attitude and emotions regarding lessons, so please remember that your child is constantly observing you and taking their emotional cues from you. Maintain a positive, supportive attitude throughout your child’s ISR Lesson experience.
3. Remember, you must bring a signed copy of your child’s ISR National Registration form to your instructor on the first day of lessons. If you cannot locate the original email from ISR that contained this document as an attachment, you can log back onto the ISR National Registration Website and log in to retrieve and print the form.
4. You received with your Confirmation of Registration Clearance email from ISR the “How to complete the BUDS” and the “ISR FULL BUDS” forms as attached documents. (If you cannot locate this email, please contact your instructor and request that he or she email a secondary copy of the documents to you.) Please review the “How to” document, as well as the additional information regarding the BUDS contained within your ISR PRB. The Poolside BUDS will be completed on the pool deck with your instructor. The completion of the POOLSIDE BUDS is required before EVERY lesson. If the BUDS forms are not complete and available to the instructor, your child will not be able to swim that day. This is a requirement of ISR’s insurance and is non-negotiable. Feel free to keep it in your colored folder, a Zip-loc bag or you can do it as a document and show me every day and email me the entire sheet on Fridays.
5. Diet is an important aspect of your child’s ISR Lesson Experience. Your child should not eat or drink milk within 2 hours of their lesson time slot. In addition, infants and toddlers should avoid Apple products throughout their ISR Lessons. Apple products are high in fiber, which can cause gas and bloating that will make the floating and swimming maneuvers practiced during ISR lessons difficult and sometimes painful. Please review the Diet section of your ISR PRB for more information.
6. All children (who are not potty trained) participating in ISR Lessons must wear a swim diaper with elastic around the waist and legs. You must buy a swim diaper with elastic lining. “Huggies” disposable swim diapers are not a substitute. This helps to eliminate fecal and urine contamination of the swimming pool. There is a public bathroom at the Dive Shop
7. For your child’s safety, we require every parent to bring two (2) towels to each lesson. Using two towels on the pool deck helps reduce the risk of spreading communicable diseases. Please read your PRB for more information regarding this protocol.
8. Lesson Fee payments of $100 per week can be placed with your child’s BUDS in the folder you will receive. Payments can be made via cash, Venmo or PayPal.
9. Consistency is crucial when learning self-rescue skills. Bringing your child every day will increase the rate of progress and retention of skills.
- Please give your instructor two weeks' notice before any planned vacations and contact your instructor directly if your child has a prolonged illness.
- If you are unsure as to your child’s ability to safely participate in lessons, call your instructor for verification of your child’s readiness to swim. Children can safely take swim class if they have a runny nose or low-grade temperature (under
100 degrees).
10. Videotaping of Lessons is allowed, however, not the full lesson.
11. Please keep all children, not currently participating in lessons, seated next to you. Do not allow them in or near the water. There are A LOT of dangerous items at the dive shop. It is also distracting and unsafe for the instructor and student in the water if other children are running around or trying to play in the water.
12. NO FOOD OR DRINKS ALLOWED ON THE POOL DECK
13. You can find my BUDS sheets on my website under forms
Michelle Coleman - Mouncey 863-698-6316
[email protected]
Veronica Kerst 863-409-7221
[email protected]
Kerstswim4life.com - to refer to the schedule