Originally Posted by
95coBraSVT
As an aside, my own kids have been close to falling victim to the dreaded pool. My daughter fell in to our apartments pool when we all had a party there on day. She couldn't swim. I ruined everything in my pockets that day because I was the only adult to jump into the pool to save her. Then my son, decided to go for a swim in the hot tub at the same apartment complex....without me! I had turned around for just a second, and when I looked back, he was missing. I went into the room with the hot tub, and his Elmo slippers were swirling around in the hot tub. Another set of shoes and pocket full of stuff ruined. But I got VERY lucky, because both of my kids are ok today because of my (sometimes lazy) watchful eye. If I had not been paying attention, I would have written off my daughters thrashing about in the pool as a kid being goofy, and my son missing as him wandering off somewhere else. So I avoided tragedy. Pools are evil, and we need more responsible adults when children are around pools or other bodies of water.
Great job at preventing those things from happening. I remember reading about a child who drowned in a 1/4 full bucket full of soap water when her mother was using it to clean the bathroom. Her mother went out to check on the laundry. She was playing with a toy and the toy fell in the pool. When she tried to get it she fell in head first. It's that easy for tragedy to strike.