ISR Parent Guidelines 2022
Thank you enrolling your child with Infant Swimming Resource. The following Guidelines have been outlined and created to allow you to provide your child with the best and safest experience during his or her participation.
Please review the following list carefully and address all questions to your instructor.
1. Your PRB (Parent Resource 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 for your child of your attitude and emotions with regards to lessons, so please keep in mind that your child is constantly observing you and taking his or her emotional cues from you. Maintain a positive, supportive attitude throughout your child’s ISR Lesson experience.
3. Remember that you are required to bring a signed copy of your child’s ISR Registration form to me 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 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 let me know.) 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 me. The completion of the POOLSIDE BUDS is required before EVERY lesson. If the BUDS forms are not complete and available to me, 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 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 the duration of 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 the swim diaper that is free to you with your ISR coupon. You must buy a swim diaper with the 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 three (3) towels to each lesson. The use of three towels on the pool deck helps to reduce the risk of spreading communicable disease. Please read your PRB for more information regarding this protocol.
8. Lesson Fee payments of $95 per week can be deposited with your child’s name on it in the box on the cabinet. Payments can be made via Cash (in an envelope with child’s name, Venmo, and PayPal family & friends so there will be no service fees.
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 a two-week 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 me and the 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..
Veronica A. Kerst 863-409-7221 (cell)
V.kerst@infantswim.com
Thank you enrolling your child with Infant Swimming Resource. The following Guidelines have been outlined and created to allow you to provide your child with the best and safest experience during his or her participation.
Please review the following list carefully and address all questions to your instructor.
1. Your PRB (Parent Resource 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 for your child of your attitude and emotions with regards to lessons, so please keep in mind that your child is constantly observing you and taking his or her emotional cues from you. Maintain a positive, supportive attitude throughout your child’s ISR Lesson experience.
3. Remember that you are required to bring a signed copy of your child’s ISR Registration form to me 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 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 let me know.) 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 me. The completion of the POOLSIDE BUDS is required before EVERY lesson. If the BUDS forms are not complete and available to me, 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 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 the duration of 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 the swim diaper that is free to you with your ISR coupon. You must buy a swim diaper with the 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 three (3) towels to each lesson. The use of three towels on the pool deck helps to reduce the risk of spreading communicable disease. Please read your PRB for more information regarding this protocol.
8. Lesson Fee payments of $95 per week can be deposited with your child’s name on it in the box on the cabinet. Payments can be made via Cash (in an envelope with child’s name, Venmo, and PayPal family & friends so there will be no service fees.
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 a two-week 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 me and the 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..
Veronica A. Kerst 863-409-7221 (cell)
V.kerst@infantswim.com