This short article is ugly. It is terrible! That’s the only way I can describe it. Four children that were 5 years and younger and one adult female have drowned near Houston in the last 4-weeks. None of these drowning victims knew how to swim, and I can’t say none of them would have drowned if they did know how to swim, but I would bet most of them would have. Give your kids swimming lessons. Learning to swim does save more lives!
Let’s Look at Those We’ve Lost
On Monday, April 27 a 4-year old boy drowned on the northeast side of Houston at the Timber Ridge Apartments on Aldine Bender Road. He had been with family members and had unknowingly wandered away. , The child was dead before arriving at the hospital . The boy had never learned to swim.
On Tuesday, April 28 a 4-year old boy drowned in the family’s bathtub at about 1:30 AM. The mother was bathing him. She left him unattended while she got a few things.. When she returned, the child was face down in the water. This happened at a home located at 25900 Fountain Bleau Drive. The child did not know how to swim.
Tuesday evening, April 28 a 5-year old boy drowned at his apartment’s pool on the west side of Houston. This occurred at The Terraces at Arboretum Apartments in the 15900 block of Old Richmond Road. A surveillance camera caught the boy scaling the pool fence. About 15 minutes later, the film shows the father jumping the fence after he and his wife found the boy missing. CPR was administered at the pool but the child was pronounced dead at the hospital. The child had never been taught to swim.
A 25-year old mother and her 5-year old son drowned on Saturday, May 16. The child was having trouble breathing. So, his mother dived into the pool to help. This was at the 1400 block of Mansfield in north Houston. The police and fire departments responded about 2:40 PM. The two were taken to the hospital and declared dead. It is not known if either one had been taught to swim.
These stories are awful, and especially so many of them. Besides these, there was almost a fifth child drowning in the 8600 block of Ballinger Drive in the Willowbridge subdivision. In that incident, a 1-year old boy had drowned in his home pool, was not breathing, and was resuscitated by bystanders before the EMS arrived. The child was taken by helicopter to Memorial Hermann Hospital and is expected to survive.
Give Your Kids Swimming Lessons
I feel terribly bad when I read stories like these. I have shared with all of you my own story about how I almost lost my own child to a drowning accident. That is why and how I became a swim instructor. So, please, if you have young children, teach them to swim and float at an early age. An eight-month-old child is old enough.
Life Saver Survival Swim School, my school, would like the opportunity to teach your children to float and swim. However, if it is not my school, please get them into another swim school. If you have questions or would like to discuss some things, don’t hesitate to me, Bonnie, at (832) 368326-3008. Or, email me