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Single Dad Shunned at Swimming Pool

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 9th 2009 10:00AM

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 ...
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Are infant swim classes a good thing?

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Mar 28th 2008 1:02PM

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 ...
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Swimming in Spreckels Lake

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Nov 15th 2007 1:33PM

On the way back to school from Jared's field trip, we went past Spreckels Lake in Golden Gate Park, a lake built specifically for sailing model yachts and home of the San Francisco Model Yacht Club. As we did, the normally reserved girl I was driving ...
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Five-year-old swims a mile

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Aug 20th 2007 5:06PM

Back before I had kids, when I had some time for myself, I swam a mile every morning for exercise. Okay, I did it purely as an excuse to be able to sit in the hot tub afterwards. But it was good exercise anyway. A lot of people did the same; there ...
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Celestial streams

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jun 28th 2007 11:35AM

Last night, Jared and Sara were in the bathtub together, more to play than to wash. They have about a gazillion toys, including cups, boats, and rubber bath toys. I was in the bathroom with them but, truth be told, wasn't paying all that much ...
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The Subskate, revisited

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jun 22nd 2007 11:01AM

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 ...
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The Toypedo

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jun 22nd 2007 8:52AM

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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Subskate -- any good?

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jun 4th 2007 3:04PM

We've got a family vacation coming up with Rachel's folks, her siblings and step-sibs, and all the grandkids -- 10 in all, including our two. The grandkids range in age from seventeen down to one, with four of them being pre-teens. Most of the time ...
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Radicool -- Rad and Cool swimwear from down under

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted May 23rd 2007 12:40PM

When Jared was just a baby, we discovered Radicool swimsuits from Australia. The retailer where I was working at the time carried them and they seemed like a good idea. Well, Jared's now five and we're still hooked. In fact, because that store no ...
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When did you teach your kid to swim?

by Karen Walrond, Posted Feb 7th 2006 6:02PM

I'm adamant that my daughter Alex learn to swim one day.  The fact that her father and I are scuba divers actually has nothing to do with it -- I just want to make sure that if she finds herself in trouble, she's able to save her own life.  ...
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