The TLC approach was founded when several swim instructors met and discussed their individual swim school techniques. Here, we realized that even though our techniques were often different, the results were always the same. Our tender, loving, care played a very important roll in every lesson. The TLC we gave each student, regardless of how difficult some students were, would relax the child and we began to see progress in swimming skills. We began meeting with other schools in the area and discussing our schools’ format. As we began sharing more and more about schools, we began to realize how we could all benefit from sharing our ideas. From these meetings, the decision was made to band together and form a group of individual instructors and schools who held the same belief in the TLC approach. As the TLC approach seemed to be the most beneficial to our lessons, we felt that this would be an appropriate name for this group.