Meet Leah

I have a passion for teaching children swimming lessons, and more specifically, survival lessons. By the way, if they can survive, they can swim and know swimming safety rules!  These survival lessons are very important to me because of a friend of ours, two-year-old Gracie.  In 2001, Gracie crawled out of her crib, opened the door, crossed the street, pushed open a gate, and fell into a neighbor’s pool and drowned.  Would your child know what to do in a situation like the one described above?  Gracie was a victim of the “silent killer.”  Not only do I urge you to teach your children to swim, but also to make sure pool gates you are close to are secure. I have a friend whose niece was in a near drowning accident. This child suffered permanent brain damage, so she made her own daughter attend for probably 5 or 6 summers. By the last summer, she was treading water for an hour. We don’t specificly  offer advanced lessons, but we will access your child and work with them at their level, which may mean more safety skills, swimming strokes, etc.

When our three-year-old son fell into our pool, I knew he must learn to swim, despite his fear of the water.  Although I had been a school teacher, lifeguard, and swimming lessons instructor, I did not know that children this young, and afraid of the water, could be taught to swim until I met Ms. Lou. She shared her swimming technique with me, and it works!  Now, using her approach, I’ve taught countless children to swim, some as young as 3 months.  I also realized that most swim instructors do not teach water safety skills, which can save lives.  As a school teacher and mother, I added my own twist of safety and storytelling.  I know as an elementary school teacher, we teach our students to stop, drop, and roll if they are on fire, yet we talk very little about water safety. As a parent, it is your responsibility for your children to learn this. For children, between the ages of 1 to 5, the leading cause of injury-related death is drowning!