Survival Swim of Ascension - Heather

2026 Registration is open! Be sure to check out our new calendar at www.survivalswimofascension.com. We have some significant changes to dates and time as we have expanded our season for 2026. Please be aware that we typically book to capacity quickly so don't miss out on securing your child's lessons!

2026 Registration is open! Be sure to check out our new calendar at www.survivalswimofascension.com. We have some significant changes to dates and time as we have expanded our season for 2026. Please be aware that we typically book to capacity quickly so don't miss out on securing your child's lessons!

Home | ascensionsurvivalswi There are many schools of thought regarding swim lessons for infants and toddlers. Should it be survival swim lessons only? Should it be just playtime, or should it be those "mommy & me" classes until your child is more comfortable in the water? At Survival Swim, we believe children can have both su...

The 2024 swim season is here!! Registration is open for both locations! Message us to reserve your spot today!
We also have exciting news again this season! Survival Swim of Ascension - Gonzales is building a BRAND NEW swimming pool AND adding another instructor to better serve our community. More information to follow very soon!!
Heather Leto Rodrigue Rebekah McClain Ayer

Happy New Year Swim family. We will open registration for 2024 on February 1st this season. We also have more exciting news coming for this season!! 👀. More information to come in the near future! Survival Swim of Ascension - Gonzales

Kids are back in school and summer is winding down. However, that doesn't reduce the dangers presented to parents of living in a state where we are constantly exposed to open bodies of water. Don't wait until next year! Survival Swim of Ascension - Gonzales is continuing to provide lessons for both survival and traditional swim lessons through October. Our pool is heated so your babies will be comfortable, even when this heatwave breaks and cooler weather moves in. Help us get the message out. Please like our page, share this post, or tag your loved ones. Message us today to inquire about availability and lets get you scheduled now!

Sharing this! Please do the same. We get asked this weekly. While it’s a sensitive subject, the facts don’t lie! Give your children the skills to survive so there is no need to depend on flotation devices, in most cases, these give us as parents, and our children a false sense of security around water!

1) They CAN’T take flotation devices with them wherever they go.

2) They CAN sneak back to water without their flotation device, thinking they can swim because the device always keeps them up in the water and they don’t understand when they are very young that it’s the device doing that and not their own ability (this is what happened to my son).

3) They can take the device off and try to get back into the water without it on, again thinking they can swim when they can’t (As we have seen in recent surveillance footage of a fire fighter’s son doing exactly this).

3) Using flotation devices constantly in pools encourages dependence on the device instead of their own ability.

4) Using flotation devices continuously in pools teaches bad body positioning in the water and will make it: A-MUCH easier and faster for the child to drown if they do make it to water without the device and B-MUCH harder for kids to learn proper swimming technique (It takes kids who have been in these devices TWICE as long to learn how to swim, on average).

5) 69% of drownings happen when kids are not supposed to be in water and won’t have the device on. If that happens to your child, wouldn’t you rather them know how to make their body float without a device?

Survival Swim lessons for kids under 6. Traditional lessons for kids 7 and older.

The easy way isn’t the best way for our kids.

Do the hard. Get them skilled.

Take it from a mom who lost a child this way and can never have another chance to do the right thing for him again. Don’t be me. Know better, do better.