AND NOW IT BEGINS - SUMMER

       Lake Erie, Mentor Headlands, Ohio
                                                                                   

     It is Memorial Day weekend and I am so worried about all the families and teens going to the lakes and beaches, the swimming holes and back yard pools. This is one of the absolutely worst weekends of the year for drownings.
     If you have followed my blog, you would have figured out by now that I am on a mission to have fewer drownings every summer. I pray that you all have brushed up on your CPR, maybe even downloaded the ZOLL, Pocket CPR, it really is a great app, it talks you through every step you need to take to give emergency CPR.
     Everyone needs to keep a close eye on each other. Someone, specially children, can disappear so fast. Know how deep the water is where you are. If you have or are going to a back yard pool, the best thing to do is to teach, even the smallest baby, how to crawl out of the water, out of the pool. Even if all they do is pull up on the edge and hold on. They need to know they are buoyant, can hold their breath and doggy paddle to the edge. Teaching these things to kids, small children, even babies can be fun games. They learn to save themselves while they think they are playing.

                 "Every time we encourage someone we give
                                                           them a transfusion of courage."
                                                                                 Chuck Swindoll