ISR Lessons - Week 1

We enrolled Nathan in ISR lessons last week and this past week was his first week of lessons. ISR is a group that teaches infants and toddlers how to self-rescue if they were to find themselves accidentally in a body of water. For babies under a year, they teach them how to flip onto their backs and float in the water until they can be rescued. http://www.infantswim.com/


With Nathan mobile now, I was getting more worried about him and our pool. He has a big sister that goes in and out of the back door and he could easily get outside without someone knowing. We had talked about a fence or a pool alarm or even a net over the pool, but Brian and I both know that those can easily fail. A fence can get left open, a pool alarm can be turned off and the net could be rolled back. We decided that Nathan needed to know how to save himself if he were to find himself in the pool unexpectedly. This doesn't mean we wouldn't still do one of the other three things, we are still deciding which to do.


We found a great instructor, Lenie Stroh. She works so well with Nathan. He goes Mon - Fri for 10 minute lessons. At the end of his first week, he still cries and fusses through the lesson, but he can float for several seconds by himself. I am so excited at his progress. His main issue right now, is that he kicks his feet so much that he splashes water over his face, which makes him mad. :) This video is just of the first few minutes of his lesson today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkk8EIZ1FRI