Guidelines for Lessons
Before Your Child’s First Lesson, it is important for you to know...
PLEASE READ THE PARENT RESOURCE BOOK THOROUGHLY. Understanding the
program is vital to your child’s performance. If you have any questions, please ask me. I
will be happy to supply you with additional information or clarification.
For Your Child’s Swimming Attire:
You may dress your child in a swimsuit if he/she is toilet trained. It is a requirement that
each child 3 yrs. and younger or anyone not toilet trained wears a washable (non-
disposable) swim diaper as well as plastic pants for children who are not yet potty
trained. This “double protection” will help to ensure a safe pool environment for
everyone. Disposable diapers and disposable swim diapers do not meet ISR standards
for containment of feces and therefore cannot be used. Please bring a plastic bag to
each lesson to carry the diaper changes and wet attire home.
For Your Child’s Comfort:
We ask that you bring three towels; one is to lie down on the deck as a protective
barrier between the deck and child, the second is to wrap your child in while resting on
their left side (and/or in case of any accidents), and the third is to cover and keep them
warm and to dry off before dressing. The instructor will place your child on their LEFT
SIDE, on the towel, immediately after the lesson. This allows air to be released out of
the stomach slowly and is a rest time for your child following the lesson. Use this time to
comfort your child and to verbally reinforce skills practiced during the lesson. Please
make sure you have weather appropriate clothing to put on him/her after lessons.
Diet Restrictions:
Your child should not eat anything within two hours before his/her lesson and should not
have any milk products within three hours before each lesson. Additionally, please do
not feed your child apples, pineapples, papayas, passion fruit, peaches, spinach, honey,
or celery in any form for the entire duration of ISR lessons. Apples and apple products
tend to produce gas in children’s bellies, which can make them very uncomfortable in
lessons. Refer to chapter two of your PARENT RESOURCE GUIDE for more details and
reminders.
For Your Child’s Safety:
It is critical and required for your child’s safe and effective instruction, that you fill out the
BUDS information for the 24 hour period before each lesson and present to me before
each lesson begins. Please use the enclosed BUDS sheet. Each sheet is good for two
weeks. At the end of the second week please turn in the completed BUDS sheet to me
and take a new sheet that will be provided poolside. I use the information provided by
you to insure that each lesson is custom tailored to your child’s specific needs for that
day.
It is the parent’s responsibility to inform the instructor of any medications or
interactions of medications your child is taking during the lessons.
TIME SCHEDULE:
Please have your children ready for their scheduled lesson 5-10 minutes in advance. If
you are late, I will do my best to fit you in as soon as possible. When your child has
completed his/her lesson, please take the necessary steps to dry off, allow for recovery,
re-dress and safely exit the pool area so that the next student may arrive and get set up
for their scheduled lesson.
SUPERVISION OF SIBLINGS:
It is important that the instructor’s attention and concentration be entirely directed
towards the child in the water and their parent. Please watch other children/siblings at
all times and have them sit quietly on the deck area. Please no running, climbing
furniture, throwing objects or splashing the water from the edge. This is not only for the
obvious reason of safety, but it is distracting to the student and the instructor in the
lesson. The child who is having a lesson deserves your support and cheers. If you have
additional children in the pool area, I highly recommend that they bring an activity to
quietly occupy their time for the 15-20 minutes you are at the pool.
DIRECTIONS:
Lessons are currently being taught at a private residence in the Foxcroft Neighborhood.
Contact me for directions. Please park in the driveway and in front of the house (do not
block mailboxes). Please be courteous to neighbors by not parking on their grass or
blocking their driveways.
RESTROOM:
Presently, there are no bathroom facilities available at the private facility where lessons
are taught, so please try and come prepared. A couple of suggestions that have worked
well for parents include: either placing a diaper under them while they go or have a port-
a-potty in the car. Please use the ones that come with a bag so you can take and
dispose of the waste later.
QUESTIONS:
If for any reason you have a concern or a problem, I will be happy to discuss them by
phone, email or in person. Parents and their children currently in lessons will be my first
priority when returning calls. I will be happy to discuss your child’s progress with you. In
consideration of other parents who are scheduled after you, please try to help me stay
on schedule.
PLEASE READ THE PARENT RESOURCE BOOK THOROUGHLY. Understanding the
program is vital to your child’s performance. If you have any questions, please ask me. I
will be happy to supply you with additional information or clarification.
For Your Child’s Swimming Attire:
You may dress your child in a swimsuit if he/she is toilet trained. It is a requirement that
each child 3 yrs. and younger or anyone not toilet trained wears a washable (non-
disposable) swim diaper as well as plastic pants for children who are not yet potty
trained. This “double protection” will help to ensure a safe pool environment for
everyone. Disposable diapers and disposable swim diapers do not meet ISR standards
for containment of feces and therefore cannot be used. Please bring a plastic bag to
each lesson to carry the diaper changes and wet attire home.
For Your Child’s Comfort:
We ask that you bring three towels; one is to lie down on the deck as a protective
barrier between the deck and child, the second is to wrap your child in while resting on
their left side (and/or in case of any accidents), and the third is to cover and keep them
warm and to dry off before dressing. The instructor will place your child on their LEFT
SIDE, on the towel, immediately after the lesson. This allows air to be released out of
the stomach slowly and is a rest time for your child following the lesson. Use this time to
comfort your child and to verbally reinforce skills practiced during the lesson. Please
make sure you have weather appropriate clothing to put on him/her after lessons.
Diet Restrictions:
Your child should not eat anything within two hours before his/her lesson and should not
have any milk products within three hours before each lesson. Additionally, please do
not feed your child apples, pineapples, papayas, passion fruit, peaches, spinach, honey,
or celery in any form for the entire duration of ISR lessons. Apples and apple products
tend to produce gas in children’s bellies, which can make them very uncomfortable in
lessons. Refer to chapter two of your PARENT RESOURCE GUIDE for more details and
reminders.
For Your Child’s Safety:
It is critical and required for your child’s safe and effective instruction, that you fill out the
BUDS information for the 24 hour period before each lesson and present to me before
each lesson begins. Please use the enclosed BUDS sheet. Each sheet is good for two
weeks. At the end of the second week please turn in the completed BUDS sheet to me
and take a new sheet that will be provided poolside. I use the information provided by
you to insure that each lesson is custom tailored to your child’s specific needs for that
day.
It is the parent’s responsibility to inform the instructor of any medications or
interactions of medications your child is taking during the lessons.
TIME SCHEDULE:
Please have your children ready for their scheduled lesson 5-10 minutes in advance. If
you are late, I will do my best to fit you in as soon as possible. When your child has
completed his/her lesson, please take the necessary steps to dry off, allow for recovery,
re-dress and safely exit the pool area so that the next student may arrive and get set up
for their scheduled lesson.
SUPERVISION OF SIBLINGS:
It is important that the instructor’s attention and concentration be entirely directed
towards the child in the water and their parent. Please watch other children/siblings at
all times and have them sit quietly on the deck area. Please no running, climbing
furniture, throwing objects or splashing the water from the edge. This is not only for the
obvious reason of safety, but it is distracting to the student and the instructor in the
lesson. The child who is having a lesson deserves your support and cheers. If you have
additional children in the pool area, I highly recommend that they bring an activity to
quietly occupy their time for the 15-20 minutes you are at the pool.
DIRECTIONS:
Lessons are currently being taught at a private residence in the Foxcroft Neighborhood.
Contact me for directions. Please park in the driveway and in front of the house (do not
block mailboxes). Please be courteous to neighbors by not parking on their grass or
blocking their driveways.
RESTROOM:
Presently, there are no bathroom facilities available at the private facility where lessons
are taught, so please try and come prepared. A couple of suggestions that have worked
well for parents include: either placing a diaper under them while they go or have a port-
a-potty in the car. Please use the ones that come with a bag so you can take and
dispose of the waste later.
QUESTIONS:
If for any reason you have a concern or a problem, I will be happy to discuss them by
phone, email or in person. Parents and their children currently in lessons will be my first
priority when returning calls. I will be happy to discuss your child’s progress with you. In
consideration of other parents who are scheduled after you, please try to help me stay
on schedule.
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Patty Thompson
Certified ISR Instructor
Phone: 850-212-5301
E-mail: info@ISRKids.com
Certified ISR Instructor
Phone: 850-212-5301
E-mail: info@ISRKids.com
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