Various Crucial Water Safety Tips for Parents

Drowning cases of children are often occurring every year. According to a survey, three out of every ten children dies due to drowning. In fact, it is the most terrible fears and the biggest concern of parents.

Water safety is very important for children as well as their parents. As a parent, you must pay prime concern to the water safety without interrupting the fun of children. Even, some parents are getting water safety training for more safety of their children.

So, to protect the children from any misshapen, following are some vital water safety tips available for parents. Thus, let have a look on them.

1. Keep an Eye on Children:-

It is one of the common mistakes that every parent does, which is not pay attention towards children. It is necessary that you should keep an eye on your child, when he is in the swimming pool. Moreover, whether your child is in the pool or on poolside, it is essential to remain vigilant. Besides this, children must have water saving aids, to rescue themselves in an emergency situation.

2. Provide Floating Device:-

It is your responsibility to provide floating devices such as water wings, swimming rings and many more things to your child. Your work is not finished yet, you have to check that your child wore the floating device while entering into the water. These devices assist in making your child comfortable with the water.

3. Water Survival Skills:-

Water survival skills are the best method to prevent your child from drowning. Water survival skill is a combination of swimming skills with some additional skills that enhance the confidence of children to swim in water. It helps children to learn the technique, if any severe situation encountered in the water. These skills include sculling, treading water, water survival position and more.

4. Be Ready For Emergency:-

Sometimes, when a severe situation occurs, parents start panic which is not right. You should stay calm and deal with the situation effectively. You must learn some lifesaving techniques, so that you can rescue your child as well as other children. Therefore, it is advised to parents to go for lifesaving skills, so that they will be 24*7 prepared to take effective action in a water crisis.

At last, your child must have knowledge about the possible danger before going into or near water. By this, he will be able to cope up with the water crises more efficiently.

Kirk Mellish is a master coach who has been a part of the popular 'Aquatic Management' Masters Swim team in USA. Our main motive is to make a trained in swimming for parents as well as children’s.