Lifeguard Shares Warning For All Parents—Never Let Your Child Wear Water Wings

Those lazy, hazy days of summer will be here soon. I’ve already spent many days in our backyard pool with my two (soon to be three) water-loving kids. However, one thing that won’t be showing up at our pool this summer is water wings.  Can I please encourage you to never put water wings (arm-floaties) on your children in the swimming pool or in any body of water? Throughout high school and college, my summers were spent as a lifeguard at a public pool. The job was fairly perfect—one hour on the stand monitoring the pool, one hour working the … Continue reading Lifeguard Shares Warning For All Parents—Never Let Your Child Wear Water Wings