Ahhh the unofficial start of summer for so many in my country that live north of here, Florida that is; here it's summer most all of the year!
I heard something disturbing, "that now is the time to start making your young children water safe," that was on the evening news tonight.
Why we don't all receive a "water baby, tadpole, beginner" or what-have-you coupons for swim lessons when we exit the maternity ward with our life wards, our babies, now why don't we it is in my opinion a grave mistake.
I suppose it is the same reason we do not receiving testing, permitting, or licensing to become parents. Sadly we have more rules for vehicles or domestic pets than our own offspring rearing.
Children can drown and do way more often than they should.
In Florida alone it is one of the biggest killers of children under five years of age more than other types of accidents or illnesses!
Now you see my point...our children were in water safety classes by two years of age at our condo pool, Number One Son, and then at the Y, in a class called tadpoles at three years of age, and when I found out about water baby classes our younger son was only seven months old and went!
We always lived near either pools or waterways or both.
Common sense and decent gal pals who also chose to safe guard their children way back in the 1970's when our own sons were those little ones was a smart collaboration. Many had been school teachers prior to motherhood. So the concept has been around a very long time.
Why even I had swimming lessons as a five year old in New Jersey and water life saving courses as a teen.
Our sons love and respect the water and are water skiers, surfers and SCUBA trained and certified as well as avid boaters, so is Hubby all of the above except a surfer; not too much surfing growing up in New Jersey. He even taught water skiing as a teen in the Poconos. I taught Aquatics here in Florida in 1997- 2001.
And thankfully no accidents of the horrendous kind ever occurred.
Maybe it's just the girl scout in me, always being prepared, ya know?
In conclusion programs are out there, and truly I wonder why the hospitals don't give parents some info too as they should with reminding them NOT to leave your sleeping child in a HOT CAR!!!!!!
Any-who, on that note of seriously hoping for a safe summer for all my friends north, south or wherever, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
I heard something disturbing, "that now is the time to start making your young children water safe," that was on the evening news tonight.
Why we don't all receive a "water baby, tadpole, beginner" or what-have-you coupons for swim lessons when we exit the maternity ward with our life wards, our babies, now why don't we it is in my opinion a grave mistake.
I suppose it is the same reason we do not receiving testing, permitting, or licensing to become parents. Sadly we have more rules for vehicles or domestic pets than our own offspring rearing.
Children can drown and do way more often than they should.
In Florida alone it is one of the biggest killers of children under five years of age more than other types of accidents or illnesses!
Now you see my point...our children were in water safety classes by two years of age at our condo pool, Number One Son, and then at the Y, in a class called tadpoles at three years of age, and when I found out about water baby classes our younger son was only seven months old and went!
We always lived near either pools or waterways or both.
Common sense and decent gal pals who also chose to safe guard their children way back in the 1970's when our own sons were those little ones was a smart collaboration. Many had been school teachers prior to motherhood. So the concept has been around a very long time.
Why even I had swimming lessons as a five year old in New Jersey and water life saving courses as a teen.
Our sons love and respect the water and are water skiers, surfers and SCUBA trained and certified as well as avid boaters, so is Hubby all of the above except a surfer; not too much surfing growing up in New Jersey. He even taught water skiing as a teen in the Poconos. I taught Aquatics here in Florida in 1997- 2001.
And thankfully no accidents of the horrendous kind ever occurred.
Maybe it's just the girl scout in me, always being prepared, ya know?
In conclusion programs are out there, and truly I wonder why the hospitals don't give parents some info too as they should with reminding them NOT to leave your sleeping child in a HOT CAR!!!!!!
Any-who, on that note of seriously hoping for a safe summer for all my friends north, south or wherever, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!