Do you know how to swim

[FallinWoman 1]

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I know mine are never out of my sight when outside of my home.

Please tell me you did not mean this in reference to your children.

~Anne

I'm a Doll!!!!

[FallinWoman 1]

And to answer the original question...I learned to swim from infancy. The house I grew up in had a pool in the back yard.

I broke into the pool area when I was 6. Smart enough to get onto the pool deck. (Also smart enough not to get in, but that did not keep my parents from punishing me.)

I teach my daughter all sorts of survival skills. She knows how to swim. She knows how to call collect. She knows to yell "This is not my mother (or father)" if someone grabs her. When I met her at age 9, she did not swim very comfortably, she was afraid of escalators, and she was not comfortable talking about the "what-ifs" of the world.

~Anne

I'm a Doll!!!!

[bch7773 0]

open water SCUBA certified

MB 3528, RB 1182

[PLFXpert 0]

You reminded me just then of my father (he had me in the water at 6 months. I have an 8 x 10 photo of me swimming by myself underwater at 1 1/2 years old). Though my father had his faults, he was forever teaching me various survival skills. He never wanted me to be dependant on anyone for anything (of course, not in the extreme sense, but you understand). He didn't want me hussled by a repairman or to be on the side of the road with a flat tire and have to wait for a "rescuer" or to be taken advantage of by a financial advisor. Obviously I come for a line of non-trusting skeptics-until-proven-otherwise It became annoying in my teens years, but at 25 I look back and realize THIS was how my father in particular showed his love for me---maybe he wasn't good at the other things, but he obviously loved & cared for me very much.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[PLFXpert 0]

Me, too. I LOOOOOOOVE scuba. I am not advanced certified yet (though I've been fortunate to do some dives on that level b/c I said "Puuuullllllleeeeeease") and I really want to be. My hunny is not yet certified at all so when he goes through his basic open-water course, I plan to get my advanced.

Love it!

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[popsjumper 2]

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... But always end up petrified and have always had to stop...

You probably already know that with the right teacher, you could overcome that fear. Good luck and keep pluggin' away!

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[popsjumper 2]

Good on your Dad...

This was one of the major things for me when my son was coming up...teaching him to be self-sufficient.

What was a major problem about it though was the Mom...WAY overly-protective.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[selbbub78 0]

swam competively from 8 til 20... definitely know how to swim !!!

CReW SKies,

"Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone
"The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote)
"The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM

[bbarnhouse 0]

I grew up around water. I think I learned how to swim before I could walk. It was a matter of necessity in my house. 1. because if you didn't know how to swim, ya got left behind and 2. I had 7 siblings that would have loved to drown me

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

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If a child will have access to water at any point (lake, river, pond, pool, ocean) then they should at least know how to swim, it is a life saving skill.

Exactly.

[popsjumper 2]

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... I had 7 siblings that would have loved to drown me

...and we're ALL happy they didn't succeed!

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[Muenkel 0]

I grew up with an inground pool in the backyard, plus I lived only a couple minutes from the L.I. Sound and about 25 minutes from the Atlantic. I think I swam everyday during the summers.

Chris

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...did you ever think it was going to turn out like this???

lol nope, not even my this thread turned out how i expected it would today

You're batting 1000...got any more "hot topics" up your sleeve?

, not from yesterday. maybe i'll have some more luck today

Where is my fizzy-lifting drink?

[Channman 2]

> It only takes seconds for them to slip in too.

I was a Safety Diver for NASA for many years training Astronauts underwater for EVA's (Extra-vehicular Activity) i.e. Space Walks. Being involved with this job and a Homeowner with a in ground pool in the back yard I saw the need to teach my girls when they were very young how to drown proof them.

On vacation one year my oldest at about 2 years of age was being watched by my wife while we were at a water park. I was on the other side of a large wave pool waving at my daughter who at that moment deside to break free from her mother and come to me. The shortest distance between two points is a streight line and thus she went into the wave pool.

I made a flying leep into the water and reached her as she was hitting bottom in 8' of water. Eyes wide open and the look of deaths door on her face.

Never will forget it. Got her to the surface and helped her as she threw up water. My little girls were very good at home floating on their backs when droped into the back yard pool. Turns out not very good when she feel into a large pool with 3' wave action.

[Channman 2]

> Ever watch a kid nearly drown? I have. Changes one's perspective on this quite a bit.

As for the there being supervision? The child I watched nearly drown was at a birthday party. Tons of kids around. Tons of parents too. Kid was in the middle of a bunch of kids playing..noone even noticed they were under water and not resurfacing. Luckily the lifeguard noticed.

Very interesting you bring this up. A young single mother I worked with as a diver had a son. They lived in an appartment complex and where at the pool on afternoon to enjoy time with friends and catch some sun.

She was laying on a towel next to the pool sunning with radio head phones on while her son played in the water next to her.

Not sure how much time had passed, but when she looked up to check on her son, he was laying on the bottom. She brought him to the surface and began child CPR with no responce and he was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later.

[base689 0]

I learned to swim in the sea when I was about 4. My dad taught me. I was born in a sea city, and until I was 18 I have always lived in a sea city, furthermore I spent (until 18) at least 3 months in summer time at the seaside, swimming, snorkeling, breath-holding dives, whatever you do when you spend a whole season at the seaside.
I never touchd the non-salt water of a swimming pool until I was 12 or something.
Now that I work in city in the inner land, once in a while, in off-season (=not in summer) I go swimming in a swimming pool; otherwise, when it's summertime and I come back to my home town in weekend, I love to go swimming at the seaside.
BTW, I am an OWS Instructor (I am NOT now in teaching status, anyway I passed my exams in 1997).

Stay safe out there
Blue Skies and Soft Walls
BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

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ok so this thread isnt' going as plan either and it isn't as funny

Where is my fizzy-lifting drink?

[lisamariewillbe 1]

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Please tell me you did not mean this in reference to your children

Yes I do mean this in refrence to my 5 and just turned 7 year old. Please tell me you think this is wrong because I would just have to bring up the recent amber alert of a 9 year old girl kidnapped from her apartment complex and murdered while her parents were upstairs not even realizing she was dead yet, or the show where a girl was screaming "this is not my dad, this is not my dad" and people just walked and ignored... or I can bring up the fact that I live on a highway...

You raise your step daughter how you choose and Ill raise mine how I choose. This has turned into a pitiful display of which parenting style is better , and hey we wont find out the circumstances we will just make general judgements based on a sentence.

My children know about strangers , my children know about safety, and my children know how to swim. That doesnt mean that I am going to let them on their own at 5 and 7. Not where we live and not with what I have to lose.

And just because a child has displayed in a setting of their parents that they are aware of the "world" and its dangers does not mean those children will react that way when facing the stranger whose looking for his cute little puppy, or the stranger that is a friend of mommys and mommy is in the hospital. The chances of these things happening is about the same as my children drowning ... but its still a possibility in this day and age so yes, when outside, my kids are ALWAYS in my sight or another responsible adult.

Sudsy Fist: i don't think i'd ever say this
Sudsy Fist: but you're looking damn sudsydoable in this

[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

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open water SCUBA certified

Cool! I became advanced scuba certified ten years ago. One of my favorite memories is swimming with the sea lions off of Anacapa Island for my graduation scuba certification dive.

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