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[quote=Anonymous]I say no way.  
My husband had a drowning incident when he was child, he pushed open the doors to the pool and was underwater for a few minutes before anyone noticed what was going on.

My MIL claims to be very cautious of pools since then. They don’t have a pool alarm but they “always” keep the door locked to the pool, the have a dead bolt and a lock up on top of the door too.

Over the summer we went to visit them, my FIL walked out to grill something, my MIL was in the kitchen and guess what the door wasn’t locked since my FIL was out there. My toddler was reaching for the door and tried to open it. Thank god I was on him like a hawk because he could have opened the door and the grill isn’t really close to the door or the pool so my FIL would have had no idea the toddler got out and my MIL isn’t very Mobile.

After that I promised myself the kids aren’t allowed to go there by themselves. 
I grew up woth a pool and we had an alarm, they aren’t for stopping kids it’s an alert to let you know someone is going out. Kids are freaking fast, I can’t imagine what would happen in the few seconds it would take a grandparent to become aware of the door alarm and then go to after the kids.

It’s a hard no for me. [/quote]

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