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Let's talk about swimming pool/water safety
Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:53 am
Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:53 am
With kids in particular.
Wife and I are currently building a house and we are putting a pool in.
Anybody here with experience with children and pools at home?
Best thing you can do it buy it keep it safe?
I've read about motion sensors and gate/door alarms.
My kids are 2-5 and id be lying if I said this wasn't an area of concern.
Those floaties that cover chest area and arms are best thing I've ever seen.
Both kids are taking lessons this year at club.
I think I'm gonna hire someone to come to our house when it's done and give lessons there too.
Wife and I are currently building a house and we are putting a pool in.
Anybody here with experience with children and pools at home?
Best thing you can do it buy it keep it safe?
I've read about motion sensors and gate/door alarms.
My kids are 2-5 and id be lying if I said this wasn't an area of concern.
Those floaties that cover chest area and arms are best thing I've ever seen.
Both kids are taking lessons this year at club.
I think I'm gonna hire someone to come to our house when it's done and give lessons there too.
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Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:55 am to TIGRLEE
I was at the lake when one of my work colleagues son's drowned, so I don't blame you for being paranoid.
this and the swimming lessons seem like the best idea to me
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I've read about motion sensors and gate/door alarms.
this and the swimming lessons seem like the best idea to me
Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:57 am to cas4t
Keeping up the swimming lessons is crucial. Kids will forget how to swim in the offseason.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:59 am to TIGRLEE
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we are putting a pool in
You're the last true family man Clark.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:00 am to TIGRLEE
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Anybody here with experience with children and pools at home?
have three kids
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Best thing you can do it buy it keep it safe?
we have had the pool for 10 years, so my oldest was 7 when it was built and my middle was 2. The oldest already new how to swim, and #2 was taking swim lessons. for the first few years we did not really do anything special except keep the dead bolt on the back door locked.
2 years ago we had another one. i put a fence around the pool when she started walking. it is about a 2 foot high fence with a gate, that stays locked.
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I've read about motion sensors and gate/door alarms
we have a house alarm that chimes when the doors are open, but that just wasnt enough.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:03 am to TIGRLEE
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:09 am to GrammarKnotsi
You can't be too safe, I know a guy that his three year old drowned Memorial Day, sad stuff.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:14 am to TIGRLEE
Go ahead and build a fence around it. Your insurance company will make you do it. And make damn sure all electric devices connected to your pool are grounded.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:15 am to VernonPLSUfan
I have heard that you shouldn't let your kids eat broccoli before swimming. It helps keep down the chances of Ecoli.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:16 am to TIGRLEE
Don't stick it in the water jet
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:18 am to BallstotheWall
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You can't be too safe
This. Be diligent almost to the point of paranoia when it comes to young kids and pools. Keep it locked up with an alarm that lets you know when anyone comes close to it. Make sure that the kids cannot access the pool without you letting them in. Along with that physically know where your young kids are at all times, never assume they're up in their room or something. And finally, get them professional swimming lessons. Ask around seeking recommendations from parents of young kids and find an instructor who specializes in teaching young children to swim.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:19 am to TIGRLEE
Phones are distracting.
Kids were swimming, we took them out to eat. Took the chest/arm floaties off the 3yr old. After eating I went inside wife's phone rang and she started walking around looking at the flower beds 3yr old jumps in pool like she always has but has no floaties on. I come out ask where she was wife didn't know. Bottom of pool. Luckily it wasn't long and she was fine.
Moral: don't take your eyes off them. Don't take floaties off until they are going inside. They get used to jumping in and will do so without them.
Kids were swimming, we took them out to eat. Took the chest/arm floaties off the 3yr old. After eating I went inside wife's phone rang and she started walking around looking at the flower beds 3yr old jumps in pool like she always has but has no floaties on. I come out ask where she was wife didn't know. Bottom of pool. Luckily it wasn't long and she was fine.
Moral: don't take your eyes off them. Don't take floaties off until they are going inside. They get used to jumping in and will do so without them.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:23 am to lazcreek
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Phones are distracting.
Kids were swimming, we took them out to eat. Took the chest/arm floaties off the 3yr old. After eating I went inside wife's phone rang and she started walking around looking at the flower beds 3yr old jumps in pool like she always has but has no floaties on. I come out ask where she was wife didn't know. Bottom of pool. Luckily it wasn't long and she was fine.
Moral: don't take your eyes off them. Don't take floaties off until they are going inside. They get used to jumping in and will do so without them.
Oh wow. Glad your little one is alright. That's a prime example of what I use to tell my wife when our kids were that young. At that age, many times they do not have a sense of danger or awareness of their surroundings. Thus we have to have that awareness for them.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:35 am to Darth_Vader
Mine jumped in pool last year in destin after just taking her floaties off.
She had them on all day and apparently forget she didn't have them on.
I was standing right where she jumped in so I was overly concerned.... Actually surprised me how she reacted,swam pretty good.
Those new floaties that have front and arm floatations actually seem to help them learn to swim with the position it puts them in.
Idk what you call them but if you have some small kids their best thing I've ever seen, we prob had 4-5 diff parents ask us last yr where we got those at.
She had them on all day and apparently forget she didn't have them on.
I was standing right where she jumped in so I was overly concerned.... Actually surprised me how she reacted,swam pretty good.
Those new floaties that have front and arm floatations actually seem to help them learn to swim with the position it puts them in.
Idk what you call them but if you have some small kids their best thing I've ever seen, we prob had 4-5 diff parents ask us last yr where we got those at.
This post was edited on 5/28/14 at 9:36 am
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:36 am to Darth_Vader
Teach your youngest how to do this
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:37 am to TIGRLEE
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TIGRLEE
You should invite Jim Hawthorne over to your first pool party in the new pool...
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:38 am to LSUGrad9295
Ok
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:43 am to TIGRLEE
Talk to your contractor about the need to put a drain in the bottom of the pool. Suction entrapment is a real concern with small children and the current thinking is that the drain is not really necessary.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:44 am to TIGRLEE
Always make them wear some type of flotation. Never let them swim alone. Never let them swim unsupervised. Make them take swimming lessons.
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