Posted on May 12, 2023
'A basic human right': Seattle aims to address race disparity in drowning deaths
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'A basic human right': Seattle aims to address race disparity in drowning deaths
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..."Across the board, there is one simple thing parents can do to protect their kids in the water: supervise them, Spiers says.
“It’s typically parents going to the pools with the child and thinking that it’s going to be fine and the kids play in the water and they don’t have to supervise and pay attention. And so they can be on their laptops or their iPads,” Spiers says. “This is all happening a lot more post-COVID because they started working from home. And what parents need to realize is it’s their job to be the water watcher.”
Diaz agrees, supervision is important. But, that is assuming that the parent knows how to swim.
“I have heard some really terrible stories of grandmothers, caregivers of color, who have been watching their children in a pool or at a lake or something. And within moments, something terrible happens,” Diaz says. “And that first instinctive caregiver tug — really in any adult — your immediate reaction is to save them, to jump in. And I’ve heard stories where both people end up drowning and, wow, that just is something that motivates us to really work hard in this space.”"
..."Across the board, there is one simple thing parents can do to protect their kids in the water: supervise them, Spiers says.
“It’s typically parents going to the pools with the child and thinking that it’s going to be fine and the kids play in the water and they don’t have to supervise and pay attention. And so they can be on their laptops or their iPads,” Spiers says. “This is all happening a lot more post-COVID because they started working from home. And what parents need to realize is it’s their job to be the water watcher.”
Diaz agrees, supervision is important. But, that is assuming that the parent knows how to swim.
“I have heard some really terrible stories of grandmothers, caregivers of color, who have been watching their children in a pool or at a lake or something. And within moments, something terrible happens,” Diaz says. “And that first instinctive caregiver tug — really in any adult — your immediate reaction is to save them, to jump in. And I’ve heard stories where both people end up drowning and, wow, that just is something that motivates us to really work hard in this space.”"
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