re: What age do you let kids swim unsupervised?

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Yeah this is my backyard. Standard issue in ground pool with diving board and 10 feet on one end. Fenced in.

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Word. Personally I think 8 seems like a good age for that if they have the skills, but every kid is different so you gotta take it on a case by case different. If you trust your kid and the neighbor kid and think they're both strong enough swimmers I'd say let them go at it since they're 10. But I'd also talk with the neighbor kid parents first and make sure they're cool with it. Make sure to give them some basic safety rules too. No diving in the shallow end, no running like at a community cool, because if they know how to swim then I would probably be more worried about one of them slipping and busting their head on the concrete than I would about them drowning or anything like that