Safety products are often placed under a particularly critical eye with consumers. Emotions can run high when the potential of danger to your friends or family presents itself. We can’t blame em’! Some common misconceptions tend to come up in social media and in conversations and we’re here to make sure they’re put to rest. Below are some common comments and questions we have received and our attempts at answering them.
“Safest way is just to take the ladder out of the pool”
Absolutely. We encourage any additional safety steps to ensure that nothing bad can happen to you or your loved ones. You know what would also be the safest way? Remove the pool. Obviously, that would be overkill – defeating the purpose of having one in the first place. We recommend having a Grandma’s Child Saver in addition to removing the ladder. However, as fallible humans, we don’t always remember. We recommend having one in addition to taking further steps because 90% of pool owners keep the ladder in their pool permanently.
“Why don’t you just have the kids get swimming lessons? Problem solved.”
Eh, kind of. Although we highly recommend teaching your kids as early as possible to learn how to swim, not every family will prioritize this. Families that don’t live on the coast or near bodies of water are less likely to teach their kids until they’re older, or not at all. Swimming lessons also takes time and money – an increasing luxury amongst the middle class. Even experienced swimmers drown on occasion, so why take the risk?
“My nephew and niece (3 & 4) could climb that quicker than the time it would take to install it.”
Of course there are always ways around a preventative measure. Take seatbelts for example. Children can refuse to buckle up, can place the strap behind their heads, or get tangled it it….does that make them any less effective? It can. However, the goal is synonymous in that it was created to reduce the amount of damage that could happen. When tested with children, they quickly lost interest in climbing the ladder after a few failed attempts. Can the device technically be bypassed? Yes. Do we think this is the typical case? Absolutely not.
“I supervised my children when in our pool. I either sat sunbathing or I could see them from my living room chair if I went inside to cool off.”
Great! We would love to live in a world where adults watching over children were the immediate and constant notion. Unfortunately, that is not our current reality. The ideal would be supervision 24/7, but with parent’s increasingly busy schedules, this cannot ALWAYS be the case. We cannot stress this enough, better safe than sorry!
Hope that helps clear up some things! We enjoyed answering your questions and concerns. If you have one that isn’t mentioned here, feel free to comment below.
