Reply to Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident

Forum Index » Entertainment and Pop Culture

Reply to "Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously we need a common sense national ban on swimming pools.[/quote]

Honestly, people with small children should not have pools. You cannot watch your kids 100% of the time. [/quote]

+1. I don’t know these people but I obviously feel very sorry for them. But toddlers and preschoolers are sneaky. I could never relax if I had a house with a pool with young kids at home. Don’t know how people in FL do it where backyard pools are the norm. [/quote]

Our pool is set back from our house and has a pool fence with a locking gate around it.  A child would have to open an exterior door, then open a screen porch door, make his way out into the yard and find a way to scale the pool fence....all without me noticing, which simply wouldn't happen.[/quote]

It does happen [/quote]

Nothing is impossible I suppose.  But at our house it's not simply a matter of slipping out the back door and falling into the pool.  [/quote]

As a former owner of a house with a pool that had a similar set-up, what worries me the most is that one of my kids would slip out during nap time or when with a babysitter. I just couldn’t relax even though I took all precautions available. We had a safety pool cover that could lock and only be operated by a key, a pool alarm, a fence and alarms in the doors when they were opened. Maybe I was irrational, but it just was too stressful to live there with small children.

Back yard pools kill more kids than guns every year. And I wouldn’t have a gun in my house for fear of one of my children being hurt, even though I would follow all precautions. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics