Dallas Infant Aquatics

Please share this with every parent you know. ❤️

If your family is around water at all this weekend, please remember:

🛟 Keep distractions to a minimum.
Put the phone down. Avoid “just for a second” tasks. Make sure one adult is actively watching the water at all times.

🛟 Keep eyes on all swimmers.
Even confident swimmers still need supervision. Especially in busy pools, lakes, rivers, and gatherings where it’s easy to assume someone else is watching.

🛟 Keep young swimmers within arm’s reach in the water.
That means adults need to get in, too. 🙃 Close supervision means close enough to touch.

🛟 Use Coast Guard-approved life jackets around open water.
Boats, lakes, rivers, docks, and shorelines all call for properly fitted, Coast Guard-approved life jackets. ❌ Not puddle jumpers. Not water wings. Not floaties.

And one more reminder that is very near and dear to our hearts...

When pool time is over, that does not mean kids stop thinking about the water.

At the end of the day, when everyone is tired and packing up, please don’t let your guard down. Clean up pool toys. Put them completely out of sight. Make sure fences and gates are locked. Check that doors, alarms, locks, and barriers are secure.

Drowning prevention doesn’t end at the lesson pool.

Infant Aquatics instructors think about our swim families far beyond lesson time, and this weekend, we’re thinking about every child who will be around water.

Have fun, make memories, and please, PLEASE keep layers of protection in place. ❤️🩵

It happens much more often than we’d like to admit.

You’re at a pool party.

There are grandparents.

Aunts.

Uncles.

Friends.

Older siblings.

Everyone assumes someone else is keeping an eye on the children.

But when everyone is watching…

Often, no one is truly watching because everyone is relying on everyone else doing it.

One of the simplest ways to make gatherings around water safer is to choose one designated Water Watcher whose only job is supervising the children. No phone. No conversations. No distractions.

After 15 minutes, when it’s time for a break for that watcher, hand that responsibility to another adult so there’s never any confusion about who’s watching.

💥BIG NOTE: make sure someone is still watching during break times or when you are packing up to leave the pool. Most children who drown do so during the times they are at supposed to be in the water.

💙 Have you ever used a designated Water Watcher at a family gathering? Would you consider trying it?