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Should Babies Take Swimming Lessons?
Swimming lessons alone won't keep your child safe around water. Image: sxc.hu
Most of us, whether we live near the water or not, want our children to learn to swim as early as possible. Not being able to swim is a safety concern and a valid one ...
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Single Dad Shunned at Swimming Pool
Certainly, Phillip Smith's two sons, five-year-old Jake and three-year-old Aiden need to be supervised when in a swimming pool. How much supervision they require depends upon a number of factors: their familiarity with and abilities in the water, the ...
Beware of teenagers "dipping"
There's nothing like a late night dip in a swimming pool on a warm summer's eve. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've enjoyed such pleasures -- on camping trips, at hotels, even this week when we're on holiday with my wife's extended ...
Six-year-old saves friend from drowning
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, even pint-sized. When Josiah Buddah took off his water wings and sank to the bottom of the pool, the adults in the area didn't notice. But buddy Haden Stusak did. Though he's only six years old, Haden took it upon ...
Early swim lessons can save lives
No kid should be left alone near a swimming pool or body of water, let alone in it. I'd even go so far as to say the same for adults. Anything can happen, and if you're near water, you want someone else around just in case it does. The argument ...
Avoiding wet naked men
The "Levenshulme Public Baths and Washhouse" was built more than a hundred years ago, some time in the late 1800's. I know that it's only in the USA that it would be considered old, but I can't help being impressed. Sunny Lowry, the first British ...
Are infant swim classes a good thing?
As a parent, a huge part of your job is to make sure your kids don't die. Given the startling prevalence of dihydrogen monoxide in the world, it would seem prudent to teach children to deal with it from a very early age. The American Academy of ...No pooping in the pool
When Ellie and I go to our neighborhood pool, I always see a few diapered kids wading in the shallow end or floating in tubes. I admit it grosses me out just a little. I mean, if a kid is wearing a diaper, that means that kid doesn't use a potty. Not ...
Wave Pool re-opens
You may remember the sad story of four-year-old Carlos Alejandro Flores who drowned after being left unattended in the Great Barrier Reef wave pool at the Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, California. The accident happened on July 12th and ...
Great America plans to require life vests
Four-year-old Carlos Flores drowned in the wave pool at the Great America amusement park last week. The boy was, according to his mother, in the pool by himself when he drowned. Yolanda Flores claims that there were only four lifeguards on duty, not ...
Four-year-old drowns at Great America
You gotta watch your kids. At the playground, if you're not watching, they're liable to get clobbered by a kid on a swing. In a 150-foot-long wave pool, they may very well drown. That's exactly what happened yesterday at the Great America amusement ...
The Subskate, revisited
Earlier today, I wrote about the amazing Toypedo. It's kind of the Energizer bunny of pool toys -- it just keeps going and going. Interestingly, the Toypedo is made by Swimways who also makes the Subskate I asked about a while back. Well, we decided ...
The Toypedo
In Sara's swim class, there used to be another dad that I became good friends with. (Alas, they moved away recently.) He discovered, amongst the toys the teachers had available, a very nifty doohickey. Mixed in with the diving rings and the toy ...
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