Infant Water Safety

Parents have to decide how rationally / irrationally they will react to the banging of the Drowning Drum (for commercial purposes).

To come daily in clothes is correct only if you are most interested in drowning lessons. In real numbers - very few babies & children drown or nearly drown compared to other types of in-home children accidents. And 99.9% of ALL USA programs have 100% success rate of no drowning of graduates - there is no unique benefit as claimed.

Go instead to a sensible program with your child in suit and swim diaper to learn skills that will lead to swimming ... and have fun doing it!

And for those who are impressed with the (back survival) float... it's not about the float, it's about the FACE (of a First-day Beginning student - that isn't shown in advertising that is screaming when not gasping for a breath while being WATERBOARDED, with this bopped-on-the-nose with a newspaper type animal training).

It can easily be a case of the cure being worse than the cold. Reports of children developing stutters where they haven't stuttered before and of throwing up at home at the mention that it is time for their 'survival' lesson having developed an aversion to adults in authority as a result of harsh survival training & treatment on the children of thoughtless fearful adults.

Survival is all the preventatives you do FOR your child, not what you do (magically) TO your child!

Safety = Watch and keep young children with reach when near water; install fences & alarms & locks and other barriers between home & pool; parents & other caregivers learn CPR; and enroll your child in a sensible appropriate aquatic program when you and the child are ready e.g. Y, Red Cross, Park & Rec or swim school.

YES to swim lessons but NO to being scared and tricked into the need for 'survival training' - it's isn't essential or 'good' for your child. Parents who unwittingly hand over the family jewels to the survival instructors should thus also be willing to undergo similar survival training themselves where air (getting a breath)is used as a reward.

Are you willing to be locked in a closet until you drop your unhealthy excess body weight? It IS 'essential' and you to should undergo this 'survival training' don't you think...since you certainly can die or nearly die carrying around all that extra weight! 'No way' you say? Your child is to small and defenseless to opt out of WATER survival training you are stuffing down their throats and up their noses!

Do you work in sales? Shouldn't air in your office or phone room should be limited until you make a sale? (since your child is held back underwater until they make the proper turn upward toward the surface of the water to get a breath - as is the practice in 'learning to survive' in the pool. Those who torture 'for good reason' should also be willing to endure similar misuse of operant conditioning in equal measure to that which they are forcing on their child (or student).

If it is such good training how come neither the Red Cross or Y or US military organizations have adopted it over the past 40+ years that in has been around. Imagine a non-swimming soldier in training (or your non-swimming self) undergoing the same training! Call 911 for the injured instructor attempting to implement this type of training on those who actually COULD fight back. Imagine yourself in your child's place for heavens sake! THINK!

THINK WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO YOUR CHILD!!! Get to a sensible program when you and your child are ready and put into action the water safety drowning prevention measures as your child moves toward becoming a strong swimmer.