05-15-2008, 05:00 AM
Filed under: Toddlers, In the newsNo kid should be left alone near a swimming pool or body of water, let alone in it. I'd even go so far as to say the same for adults. Anything can happen, and if you're near water, you want someone else around just in case it does. The argument against swimming lessons for infants is that parents might become lax about watching their kids around water, thinking that they are somehow magically waterproof.While that might indeed be true, that wasn't the case for Amanda Jelley. Even though her two-year-old daughter Elizabeth had been taking Water Babies classes since the age of eight months, she still kept the door to the family swimming pool locked. At least, usually. For whatever reason, the door was left unlocked and her daughter found her way into the pool room."She was running around but suddenly she went quiet so I began looking for her," said Mrs. Jelley. "She was calling 'Mummy, Mummy' but she wasn't panicking. It just sounded like she wanted me to look for her. When I saw the door was open I just went cold. I thought that was it. I thought she had gone under the water." It turns out that Elizabeth had indeed fallen in the pool.Continue reading Early swim lessons can save lives Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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