Friday, March 28, 2014

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Children
Grandchildren
Neighbors walking thru the back gate
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Floatation Devices - Life Saver Pool Barrier of Oklahoma


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A Mom's Review : Floatation Devises

I swear to you my three kids (now ages 3, 5 and 7) sprout fins during the summer.  It is the only explanation for the sheer amount of time they can spend in the swimming pool and love every second.  So with three children of varying ages and sizes, we’ve tried out our fair share of water floatation devices.  Just thought I’d share with you, from a Mom’s perspective, what worked and what didn’t work and why.
Life Jackets
Our public pool has bins of these for the younger kids to wear so they were our obvious first attempt at floatation devices.  It didn’t seem to matter how small we went, the life jackets never seemed to fit well.  When the kids would get into the water, the vests would float upwards around their ears, which they hated.  Then when they inevitably lost their footing, the vest would push them forward leaving them face down in the water, which is obviously never good.  After a few scares like that, we retired the life jackets.
Arm Floats
These inflatable obviously traveled easier than about anything else.  My older girls would wear them and they would work okay.  However, one of my girls is quite a bit skinnier than the other and we did have the problem of the floats slipping right off her slender little arm.  Plus, my youngest at the time was just plain too little for them as he couldn’t keep his head and shoulders above water.  Again, a couple of scares later and we did away with the arm floats.
Noodles
Noodles are the long slender pieces of foam that can be seen at any pool.  They work well…so long as your child is holding onto them.  For me, these were scary because if the kids let go, they were under.
Puddle Jumpers
I hadn’t heard much about these, nor seen them at our local pool.  A friend told me they were the best floatation device out there for kids.  Skeptically, I went onto Amazon to read the reviews.  They were absolutely glowing.  At that moment, I purchased three and waited anxiously for them to arrive.
Truly, these were one of the best purchases I have ever made.  Not only do the puddle jumpers stay on well, the buckle is in the back so older kids can’t remove them if they tried.  Plus, the floatation is on the front of the chest and on the arms, so if a child loses their footing in the pool, they are automatically flipped to their back where they safely float instead of having their faces submerged in the water.  In some models, the layers of floatation are removable, so you can adjust for your child’s swim level and gradually decrease the floatation allowing them to swim and float more on their own than being so dependent on the float.
Puddle jumpers have finally given me that confidence in the pool that if I’m distracted by another child for just a few seconds, I won’t turn around to find another child at the bottom of the pool or floating face down.  And all parents out there will know that this is a necessity when watching more than one young child while swimming.
Swimming Lessons
Even with the peace of mind that the kids have puddle jumpers on, our prior experiences have taught us that no device will replace our children’s ability to swim.  The knowledge that if they get in over their head or when we decide to lose the devices altogether that at the very least the kids can get themselves to the side of the pool is priceless.
Swim lessons start in most places around three years old, although I recently learned about infant swim classes that teach even babies how to get to their backs and kick to the side of the pool.  Swim lessons are an absolute necessity if you plan on spending any time at a pool, ever.  And swimming is much like riding a bike, once you learn the skill; it will stick with you always.  My children’s emerging ability to swim is a gift of peace of mind to me and a special gift of confidence in newfound ability to them.  This is one decision, as a mom, I will never, ever regret.
A Final Note
There are some pool behaviors that just need to be taught early.  These include, but certainly aren’t limited to:
  • Never, EVER pretend like you are drowning.  Not only is it not funny, it could also make a child less believable if they ever were in trouble.
  • Do not get them in the habit of jumping off the side of the pool with their floatation device on.  Sometimes kids simply don’t understand what makes them float or what happens if they aren’t secured in their device.
  • Do not dunk other kids, especially little ones.  A drowning and injury hazard, this is an obvious no-no.
  • Always make sure a grown up knows you are headed into the pool.  Always.
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An unprotected pool is more dangerous to your child than a loaded gun*. And so the safety of your pool area cannot be an afterthought. If you wouldn’t buy a car without a seatbelt, you shouldn’t have a pool without a fence. It’s your responsibility to keep your family safe from your home’s greatest danger.
*Freakanomics, 2005

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

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A child is roughly 100 times more likely to be killed by a swimming pool than a firearm.
(Source: Freakonomics, 2005)
You would be mortified if you saw a gun left on a kitchen counter in a house with toddlers scampering about. Why don’t you have the same reaction when you see an unprotected pool, since we know the pool is a much bigger threat?
In 2007, nearly 700 children fatally drown. For every child who dies from drowning, another four children are sent to the ER for nonfatal submersion injuries, many becoming permanently disabled. (Source: CDC)

69% of fatal drowning incidents occur while one or both parents were responsible for supervising the child. Many of these are good, loving parents – like your friends, like your neighbors, like you.
77% of these children had been seen five minutes before being found in the pool. 46% were last seen IN THE HOUSE. (Source: Consumer Product Safety Commission)
Children drown quickly and silently.

Parent supervision is the most important step, but it can and does fail. No one can watch an active toddler every moment of every day. The annoying neighbor rings the door bell to borrow milk (again), your burning dinner sets the fire alarm off, your seven year old runs inside with a bloody nose, you drop a frozen pork chop on your toe – distractions happen. It only takes minutes for your life to be turned upside down forever.
The solution is to implement layers of protection. In addition to active parent supervision, Life Saver Systems recommends:
  • High locks and alarms on all doors and windows with pool access.
  • A pool safety fence isolating the pool from the home and all access points.
  • Alarms both in the pool and worn on the child.
  • Water survival training as soon as the child is crawling.
  • CPR and rescue techniques – your final layer of defense.
The more layers you have, the safer your pool area. If there is a lapse in supervision, for whatever reason, all must fail before a drowning can occur.

Pool safety fencing is the only layer of protection that provides a physical barrier between your home and the pool. A pool fence is a must. If you wouldn’t own a car without seat belts, do not own a pool without a fence. Pool fences should be at least 4 feet high and have a self-closing, self-latching gate that opens away from the pool. Removable safety fencing has proven, over the past forty years, to be the most practical and effective barrier against pool drowning short of putting up a permanent rail fence. Life Saver Systems has manufactured the highest quality mesh pool safety fencing for over 25 years. Pool fence constructed of see-through mesh is not only more aesthetically pleasing, but allows increased visibility for additional safety.

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I swear to you my three kids (now ages 3, 5 and 7) sprout fins during the summer.  It is the only explanation for the sheer amount of time they can spend in the swimming pool and love every second.  So with three children of varying ages and sizes, we’ve tried out our fair share of water floatation devices.  Just thought I’d share with you, from a Mom’s perspective, what worked and what didn’t work and why.
Life Jackets
Our public pool has bins of these for the younger kids to wear so they were our obvious first attempt at floatation devices.  It didn’t seem to matter how small we went, the life jackets never seemed to fit well.  When the kids would get into the water, the vests would float upwards around their ears, which they hated.  Then when they inevitably lost their footing, the vest would push them forward leaving them face down in the water, which is obviously never good.  After a few scares like that, we retired the life jackets.
Arm Floats
These inflatable obviously traveled easier than about anything else.  My older girls would wear them and they would work okay.  However, one of my girls is quite a bit skinnier than the other and we did have the problem of the floats slipping right off her slender little arm.  Plus, my youngest at the time was just plain too little for them as he couldn’t keep his head and shoulders above water.  Again, a couple of scares later and we did away with the arm floats.
Noodles
Noodles are the long slender pieces of foam that can be seen at any pool.  They work well…so long as your child is holding onto them.  For me, these were scary because if the kids let go, they were under.
Puddle Jumpers
I hadn’t heard much about these, nor seen them at our local pool.  A friend told me they were the best floatation device out there for kids.  Skeptically, I went onto Amazon to read the reviews.  They were absolutely glowing.  At that moment, I purchased three and waited anxiously for them to arrive.
Truly, these were one of the best purchases I have ever made.  Not only do the puddle jumpers stay on well, the buckle is in the back so older kids can’t remove them if they tried.  Plus, the floatation is on the front of the chest and on the arms, so if a child loses their footing in the pool, they are automatically flipped to their back where they safely float instead of having their faces submerged in the water.  In some models, the layers of floatation are removable, so you can adjust for your child’s swim level and gradually decrease the floatation allowing them to swim and float more on their own than being so dependent on the float.
Puddle jumpers have finally given me that confidence in the pool that if I’m distracted by another child for just a few seconds, I won’t turn around to find another child at the bottom of the pool or floating face down.  And all parents out there will know that this is a necessity when watching more than one young child while swimming.
Swimming Lessons
Even with the peace of mind that the kids have puddle jumpers on, our prior experiences have taught us that no device will replace our children’s ability to swim.  The knowledge that if they get in over their head or when we decide to lose the devices altogether that at the very least the kids can get themselves to the side of the pool is priceless.
Swim lessons start in most places around three years old, although I recently learned about infant swim classes that teach even babies how to get to their backs and kick to the side of the pool.  Swim lessons are an absolute necessity if you plan on spending any time at a pool, ever.  And swimming is much like riding a bike, once you learn the skill; it will stick with you always.  My children’s emerging ability to swim is a gift of peace of mind to me and a special gift of confidence in newfound ability to them.  This is one decision, as a mom, I will never, ever regret.
A Final Note
There are some pool behaviors that just need to be taught early.  These include, but certainly aren’t limited to:
  • Never, EVER pretend like you are drowning.  Not only is it not funny, it could also make a child less believable if they ever were in trouble.
  • Do not get them in the habit of jumping off the side of the pool with their floatation device on.  Sometimes kids simply don’t understand what makes them float or what happens if they aren’t secured in their device.
  • Do not dunk other kids, especially little ones.  A drowning and injury hazard, this is an obvious no-no.
  • Always make sure a grown up knows you are headed into the pool.  Always.

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3 out of 4 Child Drowning Cases Have This Startling Fact in Common

Of all of the many different statistics that have been burned into my memory over the 20 years I have been passionate about drowning prevention, there is one that stands out above the rest. And for some reason, it is not the statistic you hear most often. It isn’t that drowning is the number one accidental killer of children under five or that in 69% of fatal drowning incidents one or both parents was responsible for supervision. Those are both jarring figures, and those are the statistics you most often see used as evidence that pool safety and multiple layers of protection are vitally important. But the statistic that most profoundly affects me is this:

In 77% of fatal drowning incidents, the child was last seen less than five minutes before being discovered in the pool.

Five. Minutes.
That is the statistic that gives me chills.
Why? Because that statistic isn’t just a number; it paints the picture. That statistic, combined with other data we have, gives you a window into how quickly and easily this tragedy can occur to anyone.
Here is what I mean: like I said, in more than three out of four fatal drowning incidents, the child was seen less than five minutes before the unthinkable happened. In most of those cases, the child was last seen in the house, nowhere near the pool. And in many of those cases, the child was last seen asleep in the bedroom. So, here is the scenario: you check on your toddler who is fast asleep in his room. Safe and sound. You leave, get a cup of water, maybe clean a dish or two, then go back to check on him again just FOUR MINUTES later — barely any time has passed at all. Now, he’s not in his room. You look quickly around the house before running out to the backyard and the pool. And that is where you find him. But it is already too late.
The reason that is scary is because it can happen to anyone at any time. Even the best, most attentive parent in the world cannot prevent a scenario like that on her own. There is no substitute for parent supervision, but when you know that in the vast majority of cases, everything happened in less than five minutes, when the child was last seen safely inside the house, it is clear that supervision just isn’t enough.
This is why we invented the concept of layers of protection for pool safety over 25 years ago. No matter how hard we try, there are going to be brief moments when we are not looking directly at our children. Someone knocks on the door, the phone rings, your older child runs inside with a bloody nose from a flying baseball — life happens. Implementing multiple layers of protection is the best way to make sure that these distractions don’t turn into tragedy.
Life Saver recommends the six layers of protection prescribed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to supplement parent supervision. They are:
  1. High locks on all doors and windows leading to the pool.
  2. Alarms on the doors and windows that access the pool.
  3. A pool safety fence isolating the pool from the home. This fence should be at least 4 foot tall with a self-closing, self latching gate.
  4. An alarm in the pool and an alarm like Safety Turtle that is worn on the child.
  5. Swimming lessons as early as you and your pediatrician feel comfortable. Infant swim instructors start training babies to roll over and float earlier than you might think.
  6. CPR training for you and your family. Administering CPR while paramedics are on the way can literally mean the difference between life and death.
The idea is to come as close to a fail-safe system as possible. You cannot drown-proof a child, but every layer of protection that you add significantly reduces the chance of a child drowning incident– the more, the better. Of those steps, pool safety fencing is arguably the most effective at preventing fatal drowning incidents; it is the only one that physically prevents access to the pool, making your pool safer for your children and your neighbors’.
Most children had been seen just five minutes prior. Layers of protection give you the most important thing in the world in this scenario: time. You wouldn’t own a car without seat belts. Don’t own a pool without protecting it.

About the Author:

Eric Lupton is the President of Life Saver Systems, Inc. He has been featured as an expert in two New York Times Best Sellers, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, and is highly sought after and interviewed by the media as an expert on pool safety. Eric lives with cerebral palsy, requiring him to use a power wheelchair. He's a native of Boynton Beach, FL and loves Doctor Who, TED Talks, milk, and potatoes.

Monday, March 24, 2014

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Did you know that children ages 1-4 die more from drowning than car accidents, birth defects, and cancer? (Source: National Center for Health Statistics)