I just read this on Strollerderby, and it gave me pause. We live in Miami, Florida, and I'll be that a lot of us have pools or spend time at pools with our kids. We've all heard the typical rules--have a pool fence, don't EVER leave kids unattended, etc. But the blogger from Strollerderby shares her theory that the more adults there are around a pool, the more dangerous it is because the adults are busy talking to each other, and so aren't reeeeally paying attention to all the kids, and a kid could literally slip through the cracks, and under the water. It happened to her kid, actually. Her suggestion and current rule is to specifically assign one adult to each kid, so every kid is definitely being watched at all times. Great idea, I say. She's right, sometimes when we're hanging out at the pool and really into our grownup conversations, which of us totally focusing on the two-year-old? Something to think about, that I hadn't, but now I will.
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