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Water safety is a challenge for parents. Small children are naturally attracted to water. From the love of bath time to swimming in the family pool, water is a common and essential part of life.

It can also pose one of the greatest child safety dangers for your child. There are a number of actions and products that can help to baby proof your home for water safety. But nothing replaces careful adult supervision.

Drowning is called the SILENT KILLER because you won't hear a cry or even a splash. It just takes a few minutes for a child to drown in as little as 2 inches of water.

Here are some sound practical water safety tips for keeping your toddler safe around water.

• If your child is missing check the pool or other water risks first.
• Bath seats are NOT child safety devices. Do not leave your baby or toddler unattended while in the bath.
• Siblings are not to be relied upon to keep a younger child safe in or around water.
• Place locks on toilets seats. Cleaning buckets,diaper pails or any other container that is large enough for a small child to fall head first into should be keep on a shelf and emptied immediately after use.
• Fill the bath tub with only enough water to cover the baby's legs and stay with them.
• Always collect the necessary items for bathing your baby and place them by the tub before you place your baby in to the water.
• Children should be consistently supervised when around water activities. Wading pools should be emptied immediately after use. Pools should have fences with locking gates.
• Doors to outside or water areas should be kept locked.
• Place door alarms that beep when someone opens a door. This is a good tip but if you have a lot of traffic in and out of your house you might be temped to turn them off or become use to hearing this and start ignoring it.
• Place a pool alarm in your pool. These go off if something disturbs the water after you set it.
• All children should be taught to swim. Most areas offer infant water survival as well as toddler/child swim lessons. Knowing how to swim never replaces adult supervision around water.
• Boating is a great family activity use and teach safety. Children need to be placed in a PFD(Personal Flotation Device). IT'S THE LAW !!

• FLOTATION DEVICES ARE NOT SAFETY DEVICES Infant Swim Lessons (opens a new window).

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