Welcome to ISR Shelby Stephens
Located in Friendswood, TX
Survival Swim Lessons for Babies and Children starting at 6 months old
Water accidents can happen in an instant. Protect your child now.
Meet Shelby Stephens, Certified ISR Instructor
My ISR journey started with our middle child. I was pregnant and we had a pool in the backyard. Our oldest daughter took years to get confident or, more importantly, competent in the water, and we just hadn't found a program comparable to ISR yet. I knew I had to do something different for our son. I had found a local instructor and communicated with her to get into lessons before he was even born! We started him in the ISR program at eight months old. After he completed his first session, he was able to roll back to his float while crying. ALL. BY. HIMSELF. Within seconds my baby boy could get into his float. If he were to ever find himself in a situation where he needed to use this life-saving skill, he had it! I was hooked on the program. The following year he was learning to swim. For four years, I was religious about refreshers. His progress and confidence in the water every year was just awesome to watch. After a few years, I was asked if I would be interested in becoming an ISR Instructor, and I jumped at the amazing opportunity. I later taught our youngest, starting at 8 months and just like her brother she has an amazing skill with confidence and competence in the water.
Drowning is the leading cause of death in children ages 1 to 4. As parents, we all know that there are seconds that our kids get away from us quicker than we even realize they are gone. That's all it takes y'all. It's scary. Supervision and a skilled little one are the most portable lines of defense against drowning. So let's do something about it.
The sooner, the safer!
My husband and I have 3 children, Tori (19), Cole (10) & Hazel (4). Our days are filled with sports practices, games, tournaments, squeezing in a vacation anywhere we can and trying to enjoy every chaotic moment with our kids while they are still at home! Can you tell we have one that just went to college?! ha!
Why ISR?
ISR is the global leader in the industry it pioneered in 1966: survival swimming lessons for infants and young children. Our team of highly-trained ISR Instructors provides the safest and most effective survival swimming lessons available. The ISR lessons our students receive today is a product of nearly 60 years of research and experience to achieve unparalleled results each day in pools around the world.
Today, our mission, “Not One More Child Drowns,” is the foundation of everything we do and is the driving force behind ISR’s employees, our independent ISR Instructors, and our major corporate partnerships. We believe the successful prevention of the leading cause of accidental death for children under the age of 4 in the U.S. will require a large group of caring and capable professionals whose sole focus is to save lives.
To date, we have delivered more than 19,000,000 ISR Self-Rescue Lessons. ISR believes in multiple layers of defense against aquatic accidents which include pool fences, alarms, and active adult supervision. However, traditional lines of defense break down, and the over 4,000 drowning deaths per year bear a grim testament to the fact that traditional approaches are missing a key component: the child. ISR’s core conviction is that the child is the most important part of a drowning prevention strategy and our over 450,000 ISR graduates and hundreds of documented survival stories, are proof that children can, and do, save themselves. Children are curious, capable, and have an uncanny ability to overcome obstacles like pool fences; at ISR we take that ability and teach them skills to potentially save themselves if they find themselves in the water alone.
It only takes a second…
A moment’s inattention should not cost a child their life. Give your child the proven skills to protect themselves in and around water.
“Supervision has a problem in that every time their child doesn't drown, parents think their drowning prevention strategy is working.
Luck is not a strategy.”
— Dr. Harvey Barnett, Founder of Infant Swimming Resource