Children First: Keeping kids safe in the water during summer

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Cooling disconnected successful our Central Valley waters oregon splashing astir astatine the section h2o parks is ever a refreshing retreat.

At Amy Morris Swim School successful Clovis, Kylie Cook watches her 2 kids summation much assurance successful their swimming skills.

"I started swimming lessons really, truly young, truthful I wanted the aforesaid happening for my kids," she said.

Kylie's 2 daughters started lessons successful 2024.

It's captious that her daughters person the close skills to enactment afloat.

"It makes it bully knowing that they're harmless here, but past that tin construe to the pools that we're around, too," Cook said.

Amy Morris Swim School has astir 500 students, with 90 percent of them returning each summer.

"Every acquisition is astir 30 minutes," says teacher Hayden Delaere. "We walk astir 25 minutes connected structure. Every kid learns astatine their ain pace."

Instructors not lone thatch kids however to aquatics and float, but to besides respect the water.

Amy Morris is the owner.

"We besides thatch that if they are adjacent a pool, to ever inquire to get in," she said.

Morris stresses parents should support an oculus and manus connected their kids erstwhile successful the water.

In California, drowning is the fig 1 origin of decease for children nether 5 years old.

Families with children who person peculiar needs should besides beryllium other careful.

"Children with autism, this is simply a peculiar happening we privation to highlight," says Kristina Pasma, Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator astatine Valley Children's Hospital. "They are people drawn to the water. It has reflective properties, truthful it is indispensable for them to person aquatics lessons."

That's wherefore it's important to cognize your ABC's.

A stands for "Active Adult Supervision." B stands for "Barriers." C stands for "Classes and CPR."

Life jackets tin besides play a cardinal relation successful keeping kids harmless successful the water.

"You privation to marque definite that erstwhile you are looking for a beingness jacket, you are looking for a U.S. Coast Guard approved beingness jacket," Pasma said.

While beingness jackets tin help, experts accidental it's ne'er excessively precocious to instrumentality lessons.

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