Boy Saves Friend From Drowning, Credits 'SpongeBob SquarePants'

This just goes to prove that kids are like little 'sponges' themselves (pun intended! ) and absorb everything they see on TV! Hooray for Reese and Spongebob!

The one about saving a choking victim, was Hey Arnold!, not Spongebob.

Teri: There was a case where a child learned how to save another choking child by watching Spongebob. I know this first hand and it was on the news also. So, while Andie may know of another incident involving Hey Arnold!, he/she shouldn't be so quick to discredit your comment. Unless he/she is a cartoon/news researcher, I'm pretty sure he/she is incorrect. At the very least, he/she could have phrased his/her comment a little better. How about, "I believe the case you're referring to was related to Hey Arnold!, but wow, maybe there are two incidents in which two SEPARATE children learned how to save other choking children by watching two SEPARATE cartoons and since I don't know EVERYTHING, that's incredible! Go cartoons!?"

I live in Florida. Parents must be on alert around any water. To drown is a quiet thing. You must know where your children are around water.
I just went to a wedding at a very large families home. Due to the number of children (none were allowed to swim that day) there was still a life guard on the dog and beach to keep a wandering child from falling in. People are having a good time and celebrating forget about the water.

Someone ought to bullwipe his mother for letting her 5 year boy go swimming in strange water without a life jacket. Way to go mom. Idiot.

James, how do you BULLWIPE someone??? Learn to spell before you make an idiot out of yourself next time. When people are partying, even children wander away. No parent can keep their eyes on their child at ALL times. This I know for a FACT!!!!!! Anyway, it would be BULL WHIP!!!! Way to go Reese--SpongeBob is very educational. But as you can read in the story, the Mom didn't know what to do when she couldn't touch the bottom either. Mom, learn to swim before you go into the water that is deeper than 2 feet.

Well, what do teacher pay raises and teaching CPR in schools have to do with each other???? And...there are still things in this society for which parents should be responsible, teaching their kids and learning CPR themselves being one of them.

I work in an elementary school. Our teachers are responsible for reading, writing, math, social skills, character traits,technology skills, physical education, music education, love of arts and reading/books. Now you want us to also teach CPR and Lifesaving? What are you doing as a parent Hermesbagger? Why don't you get certified to teach those subjects and volunteer at your local school?

teachers should receive no further money unless they teach CPR? are u mad? maybe concerned citizens such as yourself should teach CPR on a voluteer basis. you'd be welcome at schools, hospitals, ymca's, community centers........ everywhere! viva la Hermesbagger!

Teachers are not mom and day - they did not make these children - they are there to teach academics - they can not take over the total raising of a child. They barely have time and even less money to teach reading, writing and arithmetic.

I agree.... what do teacher pay raises and possibly teaching CPR have to do with each other? And, as I recall, our children had firemen come to class who DID teach CPR and the Heimlich Manuever.

And to Kennedt... since when do teachers teach social skills and character traits? Proper behavior and desirable character traits are learned over time at home, in church, in books with moral messages and out in society and are just as likely picked up by the child by observation, but I don't recall seeing any classes on social skills and character traits.

Does ANY ONE GROUP of individuals complain as much about their pay and workload as teachers? Sheesh! AND they have medical benefits and nights, weekends and summers off! They should try my job for a day.

Ok, so teachers will stop teaching reading and math and instead teach CPR. Sounds reasonable to me.