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[ocelot]

Carsickness sucks.

Parents who leave their 3 year old kid sitting in a lake while they sit up at the picnic table a ways away, forcing me to go in fully clothed to retrieve said kid, who is attempting to swim out to the float in the middle of the lake suck too. (She probably would have made it - she was wearing floaties. But since she was relying on floaties, I wasn't really comfortable with it either)

The lake itself is nice enough, though.

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[essara-lemuroid.livejournal.com]

oh my god, that's scary. Isn't it just common sense not to leave small children alone near water??sounds like a Darwin Award waiting to happen...

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

I was sort of pissed with that family's behavior for other reasons. Seemed to me like the girl was the smarter one in the group. She was pretty self-possessed, and stubborn in a "strong girl who's going to piss off a lot of grownups someday" kind of way. I liked her.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Well, she wasn't alone. I was there. And obviously, as a fully-dressed person in charge of my own toddler, I'm prepared to play lifeguard to everyone else's kids.

I agree with silkensteel - she seemed like a great kid. It's just too bad about the adults :(

[koyote.livejournal.com]

It wasn't even the distance. I mean, she's going 14 yards to the middle of the 'lagoon' inlet (the lake itself is miles long), and she's intent on swimming TO her daddy. It's just that every adult in her group was sort of flaky in the 'focus on the child being independent in a way that could maybe possibly require rescuing' type of way.

Hell, once she proves she can do it a few times, you can relax to 30 second visual checks, but you have to be pretty locked down at first.

(my point of view tends to be a bit looser than my wife, yes. But I'm also confident that I can maintain attention for long enough for the child to finish the swim AND confident that if there was a problem that I could cover 50 yards of land and 10-14 yards of water really fast. (and anyway, it's mostly wading depth for an adult in the lagoony inlet thing. ))

Yes, the parents were couch potatoing a bit. And Jess' isn't as comfortable being lifeguard as I am. Pregnant woman having to run 50 yards and dive into water == much different.