Shreveport Parents This Class Can Save Your Toddler From Drowning

It Won't Be Long Until We are All Enjoying Time Out By the Lake and By the Pool.

Are your children equipped with the knowledge to stay safe near water?

Five years ago I learned all about Infant Swimming Resource lessons. ISR was founded in 1966 and they give survival swimming lessons for infants and young children.

Kim Utley really wanted her kids to know what to do if they ever fell in a pool, so she researched and put her kids through the ISR classes even though it was a 170-mile round trip. She realized that she needed to be the one to bring the ISR classes to the East Texas area and hundreds of parents in East Texas are happy she did.

According to World Health Organization, drowning is the number one cause of unintentional death in the entire world, with over 372,000 drowning deaths reported every single year. In the U.S. 76% percent of drowning deaths involved children younger than 5 years old and 67% of swimming pool drowning deaths were children younger than 3 years old. "Children drowning has always been a serious issue.

"We always talk about car seat safety, immunizations, and so on. Water safety is just as important," said Kim Utley an ISR Instructor. Unfortunately, a lot of the time it takes a death to start talking about water safety. Water safety should be a concern wherever you are, it only takes seconds for a child to be in serious danger." said Kim Utley.

If you have a pool, live near a pond, or maybe you have a family member or friends who do, please take the time to put your toddlers through a class like ISR. You can get some classes right here in Shreveport-Bossier I found ISR ArkLaTex on Facebook and they seem to be up and running. Make sure you interview and do your own research before hiring an ISR-certified instructor.