Summer is exciting for the family because we get to stay at my parent's summer home in sunny Florida. Sadie turned 3 this year and I worried that she would wander off by herself to the swimming pool.
It was important that I procure a pool safety product because we exposed our daughter to swimming early on, being two people who frequent beaches. Add to this that my mother?s Victorian pool tiles looked inviting.
Along came my next door buddy, singing the praises of the Pool Protector pool alarm. It makes a loud and vibrating sound whenever someone jumps into the pool because its electronic detector can sense activity in the water.
The alarm sound can be heard from two different sources, the unit itself and a remote speaker that can be installed as far as 200 feet from the device. Since a child would require pool safety the most while unsupervised, I love this feature.
We were preparing to have a Sunday brunch out when the siren emanated from the receiver placed by the bedside table in the master?s bedroom. I darted to Sadie?s room and found she was there with her mom.
It was the kid of my neighbor, the pal who endorsed this pool safety tool incidentally. I barged in on him taking a swim with no one around after I raced toward the pool to learn what set the Pool Protector pool alarm off.
The boy was 6 and knew how to swim but barely. I got to him just in time to pull him out of the water before he started drowning. His parents were conversing with my mother in the garden and did not notice him sneaking away from them.
I did what any parent would do. Swimming pool safety is never the first thing that comes to mind when we think about keeping our kids protected, but I suspect this oversight has cost many lives.
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Date Added: Aug 20, 2010;
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