When is the best time to enroll your child in ISR?

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Many parents wonder when the best time is to enroll their child into the ISR program. Since drowning is not seasonal, we feel anytime is the best time. However, some parents tend to wait until the swimming season is in full swing before making the decision to enroll their child. We would like to encourage parents to enroll their children and get them skilled before the swim season begins. This eliminates or keeps interferences to a minimum. Interferences can be anything that hinders, lengthens, or interrupts your child's learning process of the self-rescue skills during lessons. A few interferences may be too much "free time" spent in the pool outside of lessons or even being absent from lessons due to vacations. Consistency is important to learning these skills. Bringing your child every day will increase the rate of progress and retention of learned skills. Once the students attain the survival skills, we show parents how to play with their kids in the pool to keep their child's skill level at peek performance.