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Jun 12, 2018
4:38:47pm
StantonMac All-American
My son had to get pulled out of a pool when he was about 3 or 4
My wife and I and some other adults were sitting in some chairs maybe 30 feet from the pool watching the kids play. We had a group of maybe 10 kids total. The pool had a "0 entry" side where there's no edge. The water just starts and gradually gets deeper. About 10 feet out the water was maybe a foot deep, then it starts getting deeper. The kids were all playing in that shallow water less than a foot deep.
A couple of the older kids walked off to the deeper side of the pool while the young ones stayed behind. Then we saw my young son decide he wanted to go over to where the older kids were playing, so he grabbed a pool noodle and was walking along the edge of the pool. We adults were kind of laughing about it, saying "I guess he wants to show that he's a big kid too" kind of stuff. Then as we were all watching, he just jumped in. The water was only 5-6 feet deep - but obviously my son had no idea that water was way over his head.

As others have described, there was no splashing, just reaching. Of course, my wife shot up and was running towards the water much faster than me because mothers have a couple extra gears for situations like this. But before she could get there, a lifeguard that was on his stand very near where my son jumped in saw him and jumped in and pulled him out. So, he was really only in the water for maybe 5 seconds - but it seemed much longer than that.

Anyway, it you want to feel like a failure as a parent, have something like that happen to your child and then have to sit through a teenaged lifeguard lecturing you about not leaving your children alone at the pool.
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