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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]OP here: My child is 2, the nanny is late 20s. I know she likes the water, but don't know how strong a swimmer she is. The pool they would go to has a "beach entrance" or whatever its called where the kids can sit in an inch of water and it gradually gets deeper. I don't imagine they'd do much more than splash and play in the shallow end. I do very much trust my nanny, but just want to make sure I'm not overlooking something obvious. [/quote]

I would pay for her to take a water safety class. They may offer courses that are not the full lifeguard certification course through your local recreation center. I would completely trust a nanny who had lifeguard experience because they tend to be pretty aware of what can happen when kids are not supervised.

At a pool its less about how strong a swimmer your nanny is and more about how much she understands what drowning actually looks like and how fast it can happen. Lifeguards know all too well that many parents and caregivers just do not understand this and assume since the lifeguard is there their kid will not drown. They also miss the signs expecting to see a child struggling and splashing. Drowning is silent, they just slip into the water.

1.[b] The nanny stays in the water with the children. She is not to supervise them from the chair.[/b] This is the biggest one and where most accidents happen. 
2. Non-swimming kids stay where the water is not over their heads or if they are toddlers she hold them.
3. If she is watching 2 kids and 1 kid has to go to the bathroom she takes both kids with her. She shouldn't leave a non-swimming child unsupervised on the deck area.

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Although I have never had to "set rules" for our nanny, I know these are the rules my nanny enforces with the kids while she is at the pool with them. I did ask my nanny what her rules are for pool time before she brought my DS and DD to the pool for the first time, especially since the younger one is a non swimmer. I would like to hope these would be common sense rules with all good nannies, but unfortunately you can never be too careful, so discussing is a good thing. that said, any other rules the nanny may have should be up to her as ultimately she needs to be in control in  and around the water.[/quote]

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