toddlers and pools

Okay, so I live in Florida, we have pools open year round, many people have pools in their own back yard and if not most have a neighbor with a pool. In normal circumstances I see no problem with having a toddler and a pool, heck I have pretty much had a pool home since my oldest daughter was born, never not once, out of have I noticed one of my children missing only to find them face down in the pool.

For starters I watch my children, I have also made it a point that my children know how to swim, my oldest was swimming on her own no floaties by age 1, my second was about 18 months because she has a January birthday and as any Floridian knows, you don't swim in Florida in the winter. So she wasn't in the pool much yet, my son (now 1) is not swimming yet, but he just turned 1 and its getting older here, now last month he was starting to try to swim on his own. I also have made it a point to teach my kids a healthy respect of the pool and the dangers of the pool.

But how, as with the case I am refering to, with a total of 15, yes 15 people living in the home, did not 1 of these people notice that twin 14 month olds were missing BEFORE they were facedown in the pool, how did these toddlers open the door out to the pool, was it not locked???  When you have a house with a pool with toddlers that door stays locked at all times unless an adult is out at the pool, PERIOD!!!

I feel for these parents I really do, and I hope that these twins make a full recovery, but hopefully there is an investigation going on as to if these kids are really safe at home. Sadly the most loving parents do not make up for being stupid.


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