Whatever happened to people watching their children? Next thing you know, it will be impossible to buy homeowners insurance if you have a child for whom you may buy a kiddie pool!!!
You are right on!!!!
I have to buy a fence cause I buy a pool for my children and other children I allow in the poool!?! No thank you. Personal responsibility is a good thing and parents are responsible for their own children.
So if I build a fence around my pool and a kid climbs over the fence and drowns in my pool who is to blame? Me…the fence should have been higher, more secure, as a matter of fact I should have provided a safer environment by hiring round the clock life guards. Any other suggestions…Wait a minute how about children obeying authority and respecting my wishes to not enter on to MY property without my permision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any child that is cabable of drowning in a 24 inch deep, kiddie pool should not be left unsupervised, especially outdoors. All the statics on drownings in kiddie pools are probably stupid parents that left their child unattended.
While I do not like the idea of being told I have to put up a fence (I live in a subdivision that does not allow any old kind of fence) it is neighboring children that I am afraid for, not my own. My children do not understand why I will not buy a \’kiddie pool\’ for them…it is because other people may not be as diligent in watching their children as I am watching mine.
I wonder how I ever made it through a childhood of kiddie pools, going to the pool without my \”Mommie\”, playing on concrete at the playgrounds, playing outside until dark, riding my bike without a helmet, getting hurt (and not suing anybody), etc., etc.
I grew up in a time when you could actually enjoy your childhood. I pity children growing up today.
In our ever politically correct world we must have a rule about everything. Now when I was a kid it was a parents responsiblility to keep an eye on their 5 year old child. Why are 5 year olds rooming the neighborhood by themselves? Maybe that is a better rule to have. Don\’t let 5 year olds out by themself. No instead let\’s make everyone pay to put up a fence to keep them out. Doesn\’t really matter because when the 5 year old\’s 10 year old brother helps them over the fence you\’re in trouble anyway. So why not make a law that now you need an armed guard at the pool at all times. After all no one is ever responsible for themselves or their children. It\’s everyone elses job to make sure thier kids are safe.
Melanie, I agree completely with you. However, the reality is that when the 5 year old kid or younger drowns in the kiddie pool in my yard, I (my insurer) will have to pay. Like Grr, it is a wonder that I survived to adulthood!
Sam,
What is amazing to me is that in my state RI, there is not age restriction for leaving your child home alone. I found that out when I took my daughter to a \”home alone\” seminar put on by the police department in our town. When I asked the question what age is it legally ok to let a child stay alone, I was surprised to find there isn\’t one. The officer just responded, \”well if we show up and a 3 year old is alone we\’d have a problem with that\”. He actually thought 8 or 9 was old enough to stay at home alone. My cynical nature tells me the real reason for the fence law is that the towns will make some cash off the building permits needed to put the fence up, so let\’s make a law. Yet no cash is coming in from the little kids left home alone, so no need for a law about it.
You might be surprised in the near future…people are beginning to understand the foolishness of some laws that are designed to protect fools, but fools are made by choice, and no matter what laws are written a fool will still be a fool-cause he makes foolish choices. Sam don\’t punish your kids, let them enjoy swimming in their own yard. Do not live in fear of what if\’s..
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Melanie,
You\’re right. I know what you’re talking about!!
Whatever happened to people watching their children? Next thing you know, it will be impossible to buy homeowners insurance if you have a child for whom you may buy a kiddie pool!!!
You are right on!!!!
I have to buy a fence cause I buy a pool for my children and other children I allow in the poool!?! No thank you. Personal responsibility is a good thing and parents are responsible for their own children.
So if I build a fence around my pool and a kid climbs over the fence and drowns in my pool who is to blame? Me…the fence should have been higher, more secure, as a matter of fact I should have provided a safer environment by hiring round the clock life guards. Any other suggestions…Wait a minute how about children obeying authority and respecting my wishes to not enter on to MY property without my permision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any child that is cabable of drowning in a 24 inch deep, kiddie pool should not be left unsupervised, especially outdoors. All the statics on drownings in kiddie pools are probably stupid parents that left their child unattended.
While I do not like the idea of being told I have to put up a fence (I live in a subdivision that does not allow any old kind of fence) it is neighboring children that I am afraid for, not my own. My children do not understand why I will not buy a \’kiddie pool\’ for them…it is because other people may not be as diligent in watching their children as I am watching mine.
I wonder how I ever made it through a childhood of kiddie pools, going to the pool without my \”Mommie\”, playing on concrete at the playgrounds, playing outside until dark, riding my bike without a helmet, getting hurt (and not suing anybody), etc., etc.
I grew up in a time when you could actually enjoy your childhood. I pity children growing up today.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO SOCIETY???????
In our ever politically correct world we must have a rule about everything. Now when I was a kid it was a parents responsiblility to keep an eye on their 5 year old child. Why are 5 year olds rooming the neighborhood by themselves? Maybe that is a better rule to have. Don\’t let 5 year olds out by themself. No instead let\’s make everyone pay to put up a fence to keep them out. Doesn\’t really matter because when the 5 year old\’s 10 year old brother helps them over the fence you\’re in trouble anyway. So why not make a law that now you need an armed guard at the pool at all times. After all no one is ever responsible for themselves or their children. It\’s everyone elses job to make sure thier kids are safe.
Melanie, I agree completely with you. However, the reality is that when the 5 year old kid or younger drowns in the kiddie pool in my yard, I (my insurer) will have to pay. Like Grr, it is a wonder that I survived to adulthood!
Sam,
What is amazing to me is that in my state RI, there is not age restriction for leaving your child home alone. I found that out when I took my daughter to a \”home alone\” seminar put on by the police department in our town. When I asked the question what age is it legally ok to let a child stay alone, I was surprised to find there isn\’t one. The officer just responded, \”well if we show up and a 3 year old is alone we\’d have a problem with that\”. He actually thought 8 or 9 was old enough to stay at home alone. My cynical nature tells me the real reason for the fence law is that the towns will make some cash off the building permits needed to put the fence up, so let\’s make a law. Yet no cash is coming in from the little kids left home alone, so no need for a law about it.
You might be surprised in the near future…people are beginning to understand the foolishness of some laws that are designed to protect fools, but fools are made by choice, and no matter what laws are written a fool will still be a fool-cause he makes foolish choices. Sam don\’t punish your kids, let them enjoy swimming in their own yard. Do not live in fear of what if\’s..