Drowning prevention is about layers of protection, but there is one crucial layer of protection that the American Academy of Pediatrics does not want you to consider
Given AAP’s pandemic-era failures (e.g., exaggerating the risks covid poses to children, complicity in school closures, denying the harms & inefficacy of masking), I’m not surprised the organization has made unsubstantiated claims about a survival swim program for young children.
Thank you for your continued efforts to push back against the AAP for change! Us parents in the drowning community are so hopeful for change. We are an army and will do nearly anything to get the wheels moving on this!
This reminds me of the kinds of discussion around elimination communication (teaching an infant to use the potty). There’s so much emphasis on “readiness” in the traditional (bargaining & coercive) methods of potty training, in spite of the fact that it’s actually quite easy to teach an infant to pee on cue, and when is anyone not ready to have a more comfortable bum? Surely learning before they have time to develop hang ups and bad habits is easier psychologically than waiting until they’re 3 and then trying to change their ways in a weekend.
Given AAP’s pandemic-era failures (e.g., exaggerating the risks covid poses to children, complicity in school closures, denying the harms & inefficacy of masking), I’m not surprised the organization has made unsubstantiated claims about a survival swim program for young children.
Thank you for your continued efforts to push back against the AAP for change! Us parents in the drowning community are so hopeful for change. We are an army and will do nearly anything to get the wheels moving on this!
This reminds me of the kinds of discussion around elimination communication (teaching an infant to use the potty). There’s so much emphasis on “readiness” in the traditional (bargaining & coercive) methods of potty training, in spite of the fact that it’s actually quite easy to teach an infant to pee on cue, and when is anyone not ready to have a more comfortable bum? Surely learning before they have time to develop hang ups and bad habits is easier psychologically than waiting until they’re 3 and then trying to change their ways in a weekend.