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Why We Partnered with Miss Dayna

We teach kids to swim. Miss Dayna teaches families how to think about water safety everywhere else — and she does it in a way kids actually enjoy. Same mission, different doors into it.

Meet Dayna Harvey

Miss Dayna has been teaching children to swim for 35 years.

She created the WATCHING Initiative and the Waiting Whales Water Safety Kit: a complete water safety system for parents of young children, built from decades of on-the-ground work with real families. Her specialty is giving parents real tools and real language they can use starting today — not another scary statistic.

Water Safety Resources with Miss Dayna

The problem

The Problem She Solves

Most water-safety education talks at parents and bores kids. Miss Dayna's materials put safety habits in kids' hands — coloring pages on the fridge, posters they picked, kits they use — so the lessons stick before anyone gets near the water.

Here's the gap she fills: nearly 70% of drownings of children under 5 happen during non-swim times, and 88% happen while an adult is present. Swim lessons matter — but they only address what happens after a child is already in the water. The WATCHING framework and the Waiting Whales Kit cover everything that happens before: a consistent, visual routine your child practices at the pool, the lake, the beach, the hotel, and the bathtub, until waiting near water becomes a reflex. And the whole system was designed from the start to work for children with autism, who are 160 times more likely to drown than their neurotypical peers — visual tools, clear boundaries, and repeatable routines that actually work for neurodivergent kids.

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About Miss Dayna

Dayna built her system for the families the industry keeps missing: parents who did everything "right" and were never told that swim lessons and water safety are not the same thing; grandparents who watch the kids every Tuesday and have never been told what a water watcher actually is; families raising children with autism who need tools that fit their child; and communities where the nearest instructor is an hour away or six months waitlisted. After 35 years in the water with young children, her promise is simple — no fear, no recycled talking points. A real plan, real tools, and real language your family can start using today. Where there is water, your child will WAIT.

Free Guides

Her two educational guides live in our Free Swim Guides collection — free at checkout, yours forever.

Shop Miss Dayna

The Waiting Whales Water Safety Kit — your child picks their whale (Wes, Wynter, Winnie, Wilson, or Willow) — plus the kit bundled with Swim Lessons in a Box for families going all in.