Does anyone have any experience with this group?
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My wife wanted to get swimming lessons for our toddler (who is around 20 months old). She heard good reviews from her local friends and signed up. The only friend I've asked locally about it says it didn't work at all for their toddler. We are a little over a week in and something just rubs me the wrong way about this group (and it isn't just the cost). I don't want to poo-poo on my wife's decisions without very good reasons as that leads to unhappyland. :D
For starters, they have you sign a document stating you'll take no photos or video of the process in order to protect their secret methods. That is almost verbatim on what the document said. Then there is the restrictive diet. They say "no APPLES OR APPLE PRODUCTS, pineapples, papayas, passion fruit, peaches, spinach, honey, or celery in any form for the entire duration of ISR lessons". And they mean it. We were scolded for our child having pineapple 8 hours before her swim lesson with threats that they'd kick us out of the program. There was something about these fruits cause excess gas and discomfort for the child. Our child is not gassy. Trust me.
There are a lot of research claims made on their website yet no links provided to said research. Dr. Harvey Barnett, the man behind the whole thing, has some lawsuits where he was involved in, but it is difficult parsing through those as I'm not a lawyer.
Our personal instructor with this group seems to be a mix of someone who would push Homeopathy and Crossfit. She comes across that way to me with her claims. Granted, she is just one person and I don't want to judge the whole process itself based on her.
Does anyone have knowledge with this group and method of teaching infants/toddlers on how to swim (if one can call it that)? A week in and our daughter is doing a fine enough job of reaching for the wall of the pool to grab and hold on (which is really what this is all about - getting your toddler to learn to make it to safety immediately if they fall in on accident). The whole course is supposed to take around 6 weeks give or take depending on how quick the child picks it up.
http://ift.tt/29tQqCH
My wife wanted to get swimming lessons for our toddler (who is around 20 months old). She heard good reviews from her local friends and signed up. The only friend I've asked locally about it says it didn't work at all for their toddler. We are a little over a week in and something just rubs me the wrong way about this group (and it isn't just the cost). I don't want to poo-poo on my wife's decisions without very good reasons as that leads to unhappyland. :D
For starters, they have you sign a document stating you'll take no photos or video of the process in order to protect their secret methods. That is almost verbatim on what the document said. Then there is the restrictive diet. They say "no APPLES OR APPLE PRODUCTS, pineapples, papayas, passion fruit, peaches, spinach, honey, or celery in any form for the entire duration of ISR lessons". And they mean it. We were scolded for our child having pineapple 8 hours before her swim lesson with threats that they'd kick us out of the program. There was something about these fruits cause excess gas and discomfort for the child. Our child is not gassy. Trust me.
There are a lot of research claims made on their website yet no links provided to said research. Dr. Harvey Barnett, the man behind the whole thing, has some lawsuits where he was involved in, but it is difficult parsing through those as I'm not a lawyer.
Our personal instructor with this group seems to be a mix of someone who would push Homeopathy and Crossfit. She comes across that way to me with her claims. Granted, she is just one person and I don't want to judge the whole process itself based on her.
Does anyone have knowledge with this group and method of teaching infants/toddlers on how to swim (if one can call it that)? A week in and our daughter is doing a fine enough job of reaching for the wall of the pool to grab and hold on (which is really what this is all about - getting your toddler to learn to make it to safety immediately if they fall in on accident). The whole course is supposed to take around 6 weeks give or take depending on how quick the child picks it up.
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