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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is true but I think we’re talking about a small risk and a very small benefit. I think the point at which you’re relying on a lifeguard to see your submerged kid at the bottom of the pool, I mean, we’re into impossibly rare scenarios.

Drowning deaths happen because kids are unattended near water, or swim in open water they are not ready for, not because they wear blue swimsuits. Focus on the big stuff. [/quote]

It's amazingly easy to pick a swimsuit that is more visible than blue-every thing helps.[/quote]

Sure, but that’s like saying “wearing a life vest on an airplane is easy. Perhaps you will die on impact but every little bit helps”. If that’s the extent you want to take things, sure, knock yourself out. The possible benefit is not something I’m going to stress myself over. My kids pick whatever suits they like and I supervise them without distraction  in the pool. [/quote]

This is...not at all the same thing. [/quote]

But isn’t it? The focus is on not being in a plane crash, not on hoping the life vest you’re wearing on the plane will make the difference after impact. Just like how not allowing your children to ever be unsupervised near water is the focus, not on hoping their orange swim suit will mean an onlooker will notice them floating, alone, in your backyard pool when you weren’t paying attention [/quote]

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