Water Safety For Children

Water safety issues are important rivers, lakes, bathtubs, swimming pools, etc. throughout the year. However, this time of year to the safety of public pools and home pools is especially important. Here are some tips to increase your ability to avoid accidental injury or death this summer:

• A fence around your pool.
• Make sure the door is locked at all times so that children can stay away when they are not supposed to be there
• If you have a plastic wading pool, make sure it is emptied immediately after the kids are done playing with him. Some accidents occur because the water was left in these pools and children fall later.
• By subway, full sized swimming pools, make sure you have the most modern systems of drainage. The new drains are much more secure and are better equipped to make someone inadvertently in.
• Swimming to do more than one hour and rest for half an hour or so.
• Make sure your children know they are not to enter the pool without an adult being able to physically see them. Also, make sure that swimming is a buddy present with them.

This last rule is particularly important. The best way to prevent accidental drownings and near fatal injuries is to educate your child and yourself.

• Teach your children (several times) they do not enter the water without an adult who can see them.
• Teach your children that they should not enter the water without a buddy swimming.
• Teach your children. If they are young, see if you can get in a quick swim / float class where they can learn to fly and reach for the edge of a pool.

Your mission in adulthood:

• Train yourself to always supervise your child in a swimming pool, even in a social context.
• Train yourself to make sure there is a designated adult who monitors all the children at the pool (even if it is not your party.
• Train you and your spouse have a fast signal to the other (the text may be) to pick up your son / daughter.

It is essential that you take your training as seriously as your child. We adults are harder to train and learn. For example, even though I know I should, it's hard to not take second in the table. I know that may shock (haha), but true.

Forty years ago, at the intersection lights were introduced. It took many years of training, but now our society is so trained that we know almost from birth, that we do not cross the street without the light is green and that children are putting pressure on parents / grandparents hand. If we take seriously our education when it comes to water, we can train our society to address the safety of the water with the same respect and save lives.

The Memorial Foundation Joshua Collingsworth