Family Daycare with Swimming Pool

[Swimming Pools]

Pool Safety

What is the better and safety pool you can put in your very own backyard. A pool that could guarantee to keep your kids safe every time they're in the water.

[sharlan]

There is no pool that could guarantee to keep your kids safe every time they're in the water.

The only thing that will keep your kids safe in a pool is contant vigilance, never take your eyes off of them.

[dave4him]

We are not setting ours up this year. We would require a fence around it anyway, id worry to much

[margh]

Better if we avoid such daycare centers where swimming pool facilities are available and I will not recommend to any parents to take a risk. But, if you can really find a center where they provide a guarantee of child's safety you may think. It's all upto you.

[Unregistered]

Pools can be managed safely anywhere

Since it seems many of these homes with swimming pools that offer daycare services really are run by people with swimming pools that want to supplement their income the emphesis is not on safety, but money.

For child safety, the law should not allow swimming pools on daycare property when the children are too young to swim.

The above statement is untrue. That's like saying day camps should never have pools or allow children to swim. That is a silly statement at best. Children gain valuable skills surrounding pools and pool activities with everything from learning how to safely engage in pool activities to learning to swim. I don't know where you live (state, county) but in NY for instance, it is illegal to have anything BUT a "regular" pool when operating a daycare on the premises. That is because regular pools have to meet rigorous safety standards including testing and logging the safety of the water three times a day to having the pool gated and an alarm.

[Unregistered]

thats serious

i was searching on craigslist for an in home daycare for my son. i went and met one lady and she was watching 5 kids under the age of 3 and she has a pool with no fence. do i report it, and if so how?

you should notify your county dept of job and family services, but first be sure that the kids were daycare kids.

[mariagarcia495]

People generally keep their kids in the daycare when kids are in very small age and can't stay alone at home. These kids generally don't swim and they really don't need to learn swimming in such very small ages I don't see any need of swimming pool in a family day care.

[lovemykidstoo]

I have an above ground pool and the children NEVER swim in it and the gate is locked at all times. My insurance went up $400 a year and the daycare doesn't even use it.

[dave4him]

We dont have the insurance so we dont have it set up, wouldnt want to anyway with our own kids alone it would be nerve racking

[sharlan]

People generally keep their kids in the daycare when kids are in very small age and can't stay alone at home. These kids generally don't swim and they really don't need to learn swimming in such very small ages I don't see any need of swimming pool in a family day care.

I totally disagree with your post. All children need to learn how to swim and be able to get themselves safely to the edge. All of my daycare kids use my pool. The only reason the 2 yo wasn't in it today is because she was asleep while the others were swimming. (I was outside, my dh and dd were inside.) I see to it that the kids learn to swim the summer after their 3rd birthday. The have to wear life jackets until they're tall enough to stand with their head above the water, but they still know how to swim by age 3 1/2.

We have a pool because our family wants one.

[Angelsj]

I totally disagree with your post. All children need to learn how to swim and be able to get themselves safely to the edge. All of my daycare kids use my pool. The only reason the 2 yo wasn't in it today is because she was asleep while the others were swimming. (I was outside, my dh and dd were inside.) I see to it that the kids learn to swim the summer after their 3rd birthday. The have to wear life jackets until they're tall enough to stand with their head above the water, but they still know how to swim by age 3 1/2.

We have a pool because our family wants one.

We don't have one right now, but did for years. I agree kids need to learn to swim. All of my own kids learned to swim before they were 4. I had a 3yo 25 lbs dynamo that could swim like a little fish, thanks to daily exposure.
It can be done safely. We removed the ladder (above ground) and put on a tight cover. The pool was also alarmed, so if the water was disturbed by anything larger than 10lbs, the noise would go off (never happened)

[Barbara]

Rude

I find it very offensive for the person who says that just because I have a pool at my Child Care home, I'm in it for the money??? What rock did you crawl out from under. I spent my precious bugjet money on a pool for MY children to enjoy because I do not make enough money for a real vacation! My day Care children have there own fenced play yard and every thing else they need to stay happy and healthy. I have paid for my home, one childs college education and another child who has high medical bills and will be going to college next year. I was forced to stay home to care for my youngest and chose Child care to pay the bills. I have MANY excellent references, have raised plentey of peoples children and have done an excellent job with everything I do.
Seriously some people just PI$$$$$$$ me off.
Now to the reason I came to this site. I live in Colorado and would like to install the removeable type fence with a locking gate. I called Licenseing and was told it just had to be 5' with a lockable gate, but I'm leary about spending so much if it's not legal.

[Unregistered]

A pool must be fenced off in such a way a child cannot get to it, and locked.
If I'm not mistaken, the play yard must be in it's seperate fencing, not adjoining the fenced pool area as well.

This is true. And the insurance will usually not cover it. It's considered "inherent vice" (aka....alluring to young children, therefore dangerous). It's not even limited to daycare kids, but neighbor kids etc. You would be held liable (and many, many insurances will NOT cover it under your homeowner's policy (liability) or your daycare liability insurance: see exclusions in your policy) for any incident that occurs in a pool.

[Olechka]

An infant should not swim in a swimming pool. For children who are old enough to swim, provide parents consent forms. They must sign it before their child can swim. In the form, explain how the children will be supervised. Make a drowning plan and a plan on how to supervise children whose parents did not consent.

[Cradle2crayons]

An infant should not swim in a swimming pool. For children who are old enough to swim, provide parents consent forms. They must sign it before their child can swim. In the form, explain how the children will be supervised. Make a drowning plan and a plan on how to supervise children whose parents did not consent.

We have a 16 ft. above ground metal frame pool. My parents sign consents. We also have a very small hard plastic wading pool. I take infants swimming all the time. When we get into the big pool I always have at least two adults and an older teenage volunteer. It's always one adult to one child. ALWAYS.

We had no trouble with insurance. We have no neighbors within about three miles. It's not in a fence but the way we have it set up, the sides are 5 feet tall and the ladder stays locked up. The pump is not on the ground so it can't be climbed on either.

My state doesn't have regulations about pools but my insurance requires door alarms on all exterior doors.

I don't have a pool BECAUSE I do daycare. And I don't have a daycare because I have a pool. I think it's a wonderful physical activity and one of the best ones ever with my daughter and her psych and ADHD issues.