Swim lesson questions from Outer Banks parents, answered.

Children from 6 months to 6 years old. ISR instruction is designed around those ages, and the skills are matched to what a child can physically do at that size and stage.

That is exactly what ISR instruction teaches a baby of 6 to 12 months: to roll onto their back from a face-down position, float, rest and breathe until someone reaches them. The skill is built gradually across many short lessons, one child at a time.

ISR program documentation puts an average session at about six weeks, at five lessons a week. Every child is different, so treat six weeks as the typical pattern rather than a guarantee. Sarah will tell you how your child is progressing as they go.

Ten minutes a day, five days a week, Monday to Friday. Short and frequent is deliberate: for a child this age, ten focused minutes with one instructor teaches more than a long weekly class.

One-on-one, always. One child, one instructor, for the whole ten minutes. That is how ISR lessons are taught and how Little Fins OBX teaches them.

Babies from 6 to 12 months learn to roll onto their back to float, rest and breathe. Children from 1 to 6 years learn the swim-float-swim sequence: swim with their face in the water, roll to a float to breathe, then turn back over and swim again, repeating it until they reach the wall, the steps or the shoreline.

Some children are unsure about the water at first, and Sarah will talk with you about what she is seeing in your child. Ten-minute lessons are partly about that: if a first day is hard, it is a short one, and there is another one tomorrow.

Because most real-world falls into water happen fully clothed. Once a child is ready, they practise in clothes so that the day it matters, the water and the weight of their clothes are not a surprise. ISR program documentation describes clothes practice as part of the sequence.

Yes. Returning students come back for refresher lessons, which ISR documentation describes as typically a two-week session, to rebuild the float and the swim-float-swim sequence as the child grows.

The lesson pool is on the Outer Banks, and Sarah confirms the exact location by email when she offers you a place. It is not published on this site, because it is a private pool rather than a public facility.

Pricing is not published here. Sarah confirms the current session cost and how payment works when she replies to your lesson request, so you have it in writing before you commit to anything.

Send a lesson request with your first name, last name and email address. Sarah replies by email with current availability, the ages she can take in the next session, and what the first day looks like.