ISR SWIM WITH SYLVIE

Sylvie is incredible--our daughter (almost 3 years old) has learned more in two weeks than she did in a year of traditional swimming lessons. Our son (10 months) has also learned so quickly and can already turn over and float after two weeks. Sylvie is extremely professional, cares about our children's safety greatly, and is kind and welcoming to the children. Our daughter looks forward to going every day. We are so glad we are doing ISR for both children, and cannot say enough good things about Ms. Sylvie!

We came to Lisa in the summer of 2023 after months of waiting because of a traumatic experience my 5-year-old Owen had the year before. In the winter of 2022 I signed my son up Owen up for swim lessons in the community center pool here in Franklin. I told the swim coach there that my son had no swimming lessons whatsoever. In our first lesson, while the community center instructor was holding Owen, she then proceeded to let go of him. He was flailing in the water where he could not touch for over 20 seconds. I was about to jump in, yet he eventually got a hold of the wall by himself. She did not help him AT ALL, and stared at me blankly about why I was upset. When he finally got his breath and was crying, we left immediately. I grew up around a lake and had swim lessons with those instructors. I had never seen this method of teaching. Since that time, understandably, Owen had a phobia of pools and any facial submersion. The first few lessons with Lisa were full of screaming, tears and panic. We thought he may not even be able to participate in Lisa's lessons. But Lisa did not give up on us. Lisa called me in the evenings after her work hours for the first few weeks. Over the phone while Owen was sleeping, we could strategize how to best help my child be successful. I was in the pool doing lessons with him as well. In the evenings after lessons, he would practice with me in a large outdoor pool in our community with the new skills he was learning. At first we started small with simple facial submersion and practicing holding our breath under water on the steps. Eventually and reluctantly we got comfortable with floating the next week. We then practiced " hovering", or floating with face looking down at the floor. At this point, after about 3 exhausting weeks, Owen was finally feeling more comfortable! He took off in the rate that he was achieving his swim skills. Within 6 weeks, my once crying and terrified son with PTSD was a competent, happy and proud child jumping off the deep end and showing us how he was swim back to the wall. He was swimming and back floating across the pool multiple times - no issue! I am so proud of him and all the work that he put in. I am also so relieved to have found the ISR program and especially Lisa. The summer of 2023 very challenging, but very worth it! Thank you again to Lisa ( I have told her alot haha)! She saves lives.