Drowning Is No. 1 Killer of Young Children. U.S. Efforts to Fix It Are Lagging.

Yadira Salcedo was born in Mexico to parents who did not know how to swim. As a child, she nearly drowned when she waded too deep in a backyard pool. Now a mother of two in Santa Ana, Calif., Ms. Salcedo is “breaking the cycle,” she said, making sure Ezra, 3, and Ian, 1, never […]

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6 Ways to Stay Safe in the Summer Sun

6 Ways to Stay Safe in the Summer Sun Melinda Wenner Moyer📍Staying in the shade in New York 3. Watch out for ticks. Ticks are most active between April and September. And if you spend time camping, gardening, hiking or hunting, you could come across them. When you are outdoors in a tick-infested area, apply […]

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Teaching My Black Son to Swim

My son, Nasir, and I took our first “mommy and me” swim class just after he turned 1. He had always loved sticking his feet in the water at the beach or floating on my husband’s back, but this would be his first experience learning to immerse himself in a body of water. And although […]

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How to Keep Children Safe Around Water and Prevent Drowning

As children get older, the patterns change, but drowning remains a major risk. And the most important messages for older children involve swimming lessons with water safety competence as an essential life skill to be taught to all children; there are notable disparities in access to swimming lessons, and drowning rates are higher in minority […]

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