Infant Swimming Resource Iowa

Only three spots remaining for my summer session beginning in June!
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•Who: children as young as 6 months old
•What: aquatic survival skills (ISR)
•Where: Ames, IA
•When: June 3rd (6-8 weeks)
•Why: to end childhood drowning - drowning is the leading cause of accidental death in children under 4 years old.

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If you’d like to be part of the 2024 Spring session please email Afton or me to sign up for our joint session in Ankeny. Beginning March 18th.
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Afton Kidman (ISR Central Iowa) & I are doing a joint session beginning March 18th in Ankeny, IA. Registration opening Monday! Email us for details:
[email protected]
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My face EVERY SINGLE TIME a kid floats on their own, even for a second.
It never ever gets old.
I love my job!
💙💚

Every second of every day our senses take in 11 million pieces of data but can only process about 40-60 pieces of it. The rest our minds become blind to. This is called Inattention Blindness. We all have it…all of us. We ALL miss things that happen right in front of us, because other things are also competing for our attention at the same time.

It doesn’t matter how badly we want to see something happen. We can and do miss important things.

Drownings are easily missed. They are silent, they happen almost entirely under the water and they are fast…very fast. There isn’t much happening that will draw attention to it when it happens so other things will easily distract us from noticing it.

Bottom line:

Don’t think it can’t happen to you…it can.

Don’t think you watch every second of every day…you don’t.

Don’t think parents are neglectful because it happened to them…they weren’t.

Don’t think your child won’t try to get to water when they aren’t meant to be there and you aren’t watching…they will.

Don’t think just because it hasn’t happened yet that it won’t…It can. It might.

Don’t think supervision is enough for your child…it’s not.

Get your kids skilled in the water.

Put barriers between them and the water. Safety fences, locks, alarms. Don’t forget windows and dog doors too.

Designate a water watcher for swimmers and use one-on-one touch supervision with non-swimmers.

Watch the kids closely during the minutes and hours after swim time. That’s when they are most likely to try to get back in without you and without a device.

Don’t use flotation devices in pools, so that kids can understand what their own bodies can and can’t do in the water and have a healthier respect for it.

Always use life jackets in and around open water because of the uncontrolled nature of it. Use them whether your child can swim or not.

Don’t leave toys in the pool-it just tempts the kids even more.

Learn CPR.

Water safety is for EVERYONE because drowning can happen to ANYONE.