May 8, 2020
By Ali Sensintaffar, HRCA Assistant Aquatic Program Coordinator
Talking to Your Child About Water Safety With talks of starting to reopen everything, let’s take some time to talk about water safety with our children. As a swim instructor, one of the main things that we touch on in every single level of our swim lessons is safety. Here are the topics that we cover:
Here is a great article for parents to read about drowning called Drowning doesn't look like drowning. It has a lot of statistics in it such as, “Of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult.” It also goes into depth about what drowning can look like so that we are all prepared to have a fun, safe time in the water!
Check it out and let me know if you learned anything new!
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