there is no one way to keep your
children safe in the water it's gonna
require multiple steps and we call this
in the slim life layers of protection
now layers of protection is kind of
difficult to remember so we like to
break it down into some swim types
swimming Safari program director Sarah
Odom and the rest of the team created an
acronym swim that should remind adults
about the layers of protection needed
for your kids when hanging around pool
let's start with yes so when you're
talking about swimming we're gonna talk
about some lessons some lessons are
extremely important when we have our
students come to swim lessons there have
been statistics proven the students who
attend some lessons are 88% safer than
students who do not receive some lessons
so it's pretty important to get your
kids in not just as a life-saving skill
but also for fun and activities those
swim lessons apply to adults as well
this next letter of swim is most
definitely for the adults when you move
on to the W in swimming we're gonna be
talking about water watch your tags
water watch your tags is a way that
wouldn't go to a pool outing or you're
out at the beach any event that's
evolving water you're going to give any
patron there a water watcher tag this
designates that person to watch the
water for 10 to 15 minutes and they are
the only person watching the water how
many times do we all go moms watching
water dad's watching the water ok well
grandma's gonna watch now but that
person thinks the other person is
watching so what we want to do is the
person who's holding the tag or wearing
the tag doesn't go to the bathroom they
don't answer their phone they sit and
they watch to keep everyone safe we're
gonna switch it out so that everyone
gets a break and can mingle and get a
drink and have some fun but the biggest
part of a pool party is safe fun so we
have to have that safety aspect those
tags will go a long way to ensuring that
everyone is on the same page while
looking out for those in the pool and
they can be purchased at swimming Safari
water safe kids or other outlets
they can also be handmade it doesn't
matter as long as everyone can see who
is the water watcher at any given moment
the I and swim is gonna be about
installing and that's gonna
installing your protection so you're
gonna want to have gates surrounding
your pool not just one layer we want a
couple of gates so get around the pool
and also a gate around the fence from
there you want to make sure they each
door leading to and from the pool is
gonna have locks and we know children
are xscape artists so we don't want just
a lock at their Heights we also want a
lock that's gonna be higher up but
they're not able to reach now say your
child somehow gets out that door there's
another type of protection that you can
add that the child wears on their wrist
this can alarm in the house or call your
phone if your child gets wet or goes too
far away
there are also types of protections that
you slide into the pool that if the
detection monitor gets motion activated
it'll send an alarm out as well those
are genius concepts duly noted there is
another aspect of the swim acronym that
might carry more weight than any of the
others when you are using all these
layers of protection nothing is as good
as monitoring your own children so we
need to be monitoring not only where our
children are the access to the water
that they have but also our surroundings
you never know if your child's gonna go
to their friends house and if that
friend might have a pool or they go to
another friend's house from there you
never know that that child is gonna be
safe so it's good to call up and make
sure that you know that that pool has
the same kind of surroundings and guards
that you would want on your floor while
this discussion is focused on pool
safety these tips can be applied to a
wide range of bodies of water in Florida
in our location we have lots of
retention ponds we're surrounded by
rivers and lakes and oceans and those
draw children to them it's very
important that you're aware of those
areas and how to be safe around them
keeping track of your kids as well as
emptied blowup pools during summer
making sure they're turned over so they
can't fill up with water you're also
gonna want to take away ladders from
permanent above-ground pools they have
devices where you can actually slide
them over the ladder that you don't have
to take it away or just remove it so
that students can't get
their own I'm up that ladder and go
swimming I'm Rance Adams a River City
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