My daycare sent home sheet to ok allowing swimming

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in a kiddie pool.
Would this bother you? I was fine with it, assuming she was right there to watch the kids, but then I read the form that she is required to give us from the state. It talks about e-coli, children drowning, etc. It was like googling worst case scenerios when you have a pain in your side. lol

What questions should I ask? (there are 8 kids ranging in age from 1-6, most being 3-4, DS is 1 and just started walking)

[Jem]

Our daycare sent that home and we didn't sign it. But the "kiddie pool" for him was a big pool that just didn't have a deep end. We just aren't comfortable with it since he is only 2.

For questions I would ask what the teacher to kid ratio would be while they are using the pool. Do all the kids go in the pool at the same time? I would be concerned about the littlest ones getting pulled on/under by the older ones. Do they wear flotation devices?

[anna7602]

What is the ratio of adults to children while in the pool? Will they be wearing those inflatable arm things (can't remember the word- floaties?) or anything else?

How old are the children? I think my comfort level would depend on the age of the child/children.
ETA: sorry, just saw ages. At age 1, I would be uncomfortable.

[GailGoldie]

Our daycare does water play a fee days a week during the summer. I have never thought twice about it. The kids LOVE it and there are a bunch of teachers there at all times.

They have some sprinklers and little blow up pools.

[Ashley&Scott]

At 1 I would not be comfortable with a kiddie pool.

[hannamarin]

I would prefer a water play area on a table That they put their arms into. Then nobody can fall in it and drown with their face in 2 inches of water, etc.

I would ask what happens if one child has to go to the bathroom. Or hurts themselves and needs to go in

[pamela]

I would be ok with it.

[jena]

I'm assuming the form is the same weather it's a public swimming pool or a 6" deep blow up kiddie pool.

Our daycare does splash day once a week in the summer and all the kids do it once they're out of the infant room (so 12mo+ and walking). The smallest ones tend to like the water table more, but some go sit in the pools (they set up about 6 of them). The teacher ratio remains the same as usual, and it has never worried me - they have plenty of floaters who can help take kids to the bathroom.

At an in-home daycare and just one person, I would be concerned with how she would handle bathroom trips and diaper changes.

[zeewifeandmama]

Jun 1, 2012 17:38:42 GMT -5 jena said:

I'm assuming the form is the same weather it's a public swimming pool or a 6" deep blow up kiddie pool.


At an in-home daycare and just one person, I would be concerned with how she would handle bathroom trips and diaper changes.

This would be my concern as well. I would want to know the adult to kid ratio.

[SusanBAnthony]

I would have no problem with this.

At 1, I bet he isn't even in the pool. I bet she sets him up with some buckets of water, or has a seperate little pool with an inch of water in it. You would be crazy to let a one year old in a pool with 3-4 year olds, unless he/she was being held by an adult the whole time. I assume you DC lady isn't crazy, so I assume she isn't going to just throw him in the pool with the bigger kids.

[NinaSimone]

I wouldn't be comfortable with a kiddie pool for a 1 year old. My DD is 2.5 and I did not sign the waiver for her to "swim" at daycare.

[dragonfly08]

Not sure I'd be ok with a pool. Sprinklers and a water table, yes, if the teacher/student ratio was good.

My kids are 8 and 5, and their summer camp goes to the pool once a week. I'm only ok sending my 5 yo because I know the instructors require the child either pass a strict swim test or that they wear a vest in the pool. The test is strict enough that even though DD #1 could pass it, last year she chose not to bother and just wore the vest! Odds are she'll do it again this year; she's lazy that way and that's OK with me!

[GailGoldie]

honestly - if you don't trust your daycare to watch your child properly during "water play" - i don't see how you can trust them on a regular basis.

[thedash]

I wouldn't sign it. For safety and health reasons. Sprinklers and a water table, yes. Baby pool under those conditions, no.