Unnecessary Drownings!

medicnick83

medicnick83

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Hi all,

From the link: http://blog.er24.co.za/2010/10/five-year-old-boy-drowns-at-school/

A five year old boy has allegedly drowned this afternoon at the J.H Kroneberg primary school in Kensington. Allegedly the boy who was attending a vacation school at the premises was playing with some friends in the courtyard when they accidently kicked a ball over a wall. The five year old boy then scaled the wall enclosing the pool area to retrieve the ball. After approximately ten minutes his friends and supervisors realized that the child had still not returned and went searching for him. Upon investigating the pool area they found the child floating at the deep end of the pool.
They then promptly activated the emergency services to assist with the situation. When ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene, Metro EMS and Vincent Palloti Life paramedics had already started resuscitation efforts on the child. The child was then transported to the Red Cross children’s hospital with the paramedic’s still actively doing CPR on the child.
With summer upon us and more and more people entering the water either at our beaches or swimming pools, ER24 encourages parents and supervising adults to be extra vigilant over children swimming or playing around pools.
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Now I bring the following question to your attention - how many of you (parents) have considered the possibility of your kids having an 'accident' around the pool area and how secure is your pool or friends pool where your kids swim etc?

There have been so many drownings this past week, I just had to post this thread.
 
Every house I've owned has had a pool.

We always had very strict rules in place when the kids wanted to swim.

We taught our own kids how to swim before they could walk... any visiting kids had to wear floaties or arm bands and their parents had to be at poolside while they were there.

The swimming pool safety net was always on when pool was not in use.

I almost drowned (in the sea) as a teenager, so I'm paranoid when it comes to my pool at home!!!
 
I hope the rest of you are the same, if not, please organise (get a net) etc... I do not want to hear about a member's kid drowning!!! :mad:
 
Both my kids could swim before they could walk.

We don't have a pool, but I read an article somewhere that said 90% of child drownings happen away from home.
I grew up with a pool from about the age of 6, and I hope to get a pool installed in the next year or so.
My daughter (aged 4) already swims to the point where I would trust her around a pool, and my son (2 in Nov) I trust enough to tread water a bit and get to the side by himself, so I don't watch him like a hawk when we're around a pool, but I wouldn't let him around the pool unless I'm there.
Both my kids go to swimming lessons twice a week.
 
gdiza said:
please organise (get a net) etc...
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Nets work, but a fence is better. Nets are a hassle & people forget.

Neither of those help though if the parent is thick as a plank. Once had to rescue a kid from drowning...with the mother standing 3m away staring at the kid thrashing the water frantically.:wtf:
 
Sting said:
Every house I've owned has had a pool.

We always had very strict rules in place when the kids wanted to swim.

We taught our own kids how to swim before they could walk... any visiting kids had to wear floaties or arm bands and their parents had to be at poolside while they were there.

The swimming pool safety net was always on when pool was not in use.

I almost drowned (in the sea) as a teenager, so I'm paranoid when it comes to my pool at home!!!
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Thats the key no key its every bodys fault
 
I still vividly recall the day a woman at works kid drowned and she got called at work, absolutely terrible.

In this day and age should you not get your kid trained from a very young age though? Once you can swim it's easier than walking if you ask me.
 
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