well thats irritating. It shows this baby falling in the pool and floating managing to float for 5 minutes. I was a little irritated that it took the dad so long to realize the kid was missing but I think they did it for effect. Still amazing they taught a baby to do that
It always makes me crazy when people with swimming pools and babies leave even the remotest possibility for a drowning like that. In the case of this video, I'm sure it was for the effect, but still, it makes me crazy!
My son with the kids has an indoor pool and THAT drives me nuts. They keep it locked up, but I wish they'd tear the damn thing down. I'm going to send him that video.
I want a pool so badly, but I'm afraid of the same thing. I was brought up around water and we lived on the lake for years so I'm an extremely strong swimmer, but my children haven't had the same luxury. I have taught them to swim but still they don't have enough experience to call them strong swimmers. We have a huge back yeard, so I think we may eventually put one in there though. The goof balls who added our bedroom in the back of the house included sliding glass doors off of the back, so I wouldn't mind having a deck going straight from our back door to a patio and pool area. That way we can lock our bedroom door and the sliding doors, fence it all in and have a little fortress around our pool lol.
You know I wonder the same thing too. i mean gees. OUr back door opened right up to about 20 feet if that away from the lake and I'm still kicking. I kinda wonder hmmm were my parents crazy or something lol.
As someone who grew up where at best there was a pool in every other backyard I can say that they all had fences around them. My mom wouldn't let us have a pool, not because we couldn't swim because we all were good swimmers before we were 3 but because she was afraid that a neighbor kid would wander in and somehow get into the pool. Not only would she be responsible legally but she said that she would have to be committed if she knew she was at fault if a child died.
Actually in Phoenix there have been a lot of cases of people who buy houses with pools that don't have fences, they can't afford to put the fence in so they call the fire department and the fire department foots the bill and a fence is put in. Its not cheap but it saves a life. You should see the number of drownings in AZ every year. The drowning campaigns start every year around March. And run through October and November. Sometimes even more. The whole, "It only Takes a second" phrase is something everyone in Arizona has heard millions of times. I don't think we are over protecting our kids. I mean does it harm them to put them in a car seat, or to watch them around a pool. No, but it may harm them if we don't. Thats reason enough for me.
