Preventing Drowning

Written by Anne Cavicchi


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Since home swimming pools create a very big and real hazzard, follow these steps to minimizerepparttar risks:

Completely enclose outdoor pools on all sides. Make sure thatrepparttar 111040 gate is self closing and latching. Install a pool side telephone and rescue aids Get trained in first aid and CPR Never leave your children unattended in or aroundrepparttar 111041 pool, not even for a moment. Hot tubs and children also don't mix. Ensure that your hot tub is covered very securly when not in use. In addition torepparttar 111042 dangers of drowning, hot tubs pose other risks to children. The water temperature may be too high for them to tolerate -- temperatures over 100 degrees may increase a childs heartrate to dangerous levels.

Water play can be great fun -- please play safe!



Anne Cavicchi is a married working mother with one son and two stepdaughters. She is also the owner of maternitycorner.com. She enjoys spending time together with her family, golfing, photography and offering advice and support for new Moms and Dads.


Suck Up Those Dust Hippos

Written by David Leonhardt


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"Dust hippos?"

"Yes, now suck uprepparttar dust hippos," she demanded.

"They can't be hippos."

"Bunnies live in forests and grasslands. Hippos live in rivers and swamps. If that's a swamp, those are hippos," she declared. "Now suck 'em up."

"I can't do that. Hippos are an endangered species."

"What makes you say that?" my wife wanted to know.

"Well, you don't see too many of them going for second helpings atrepparttar 111039 Golden Dragon Buffet or meandering throughrepparttar 111040 park on their unicycles or hailing a cab outsiderepparttar 111041 train station, do you?"

My wife looked at me as if I had just said something strange. "That's because hippos live in Africa."

"Oh."

"Vacuum uprepparttar 111042 dust hippos," she added.

"But that's our swamprepparttar 111043 dust hippos are swimming in. What about our ecosystem?"

"Swamps are wet, forests are dry," she replied.

"What on earth does that have to do with vacuuming underrepparttar 111044 bed?"

"Just take a look under there. Dry. Dry. Dry. That's not a wetland," she answered.

"It's not?"

"No. It's like a dry forest just beforerepparttar 111045 forest fire," she responded. "The forest fire your vacuum will create."

This was another unexpected twist inrepparttar 111046 plot. "You want me to set fire torepparttar 111047 forest of our household ecosystem? That would be devastating."

"Occasional forest fires are a vital element in a healthy ecosystem, essential torepparttar 111048 regeneration of many species of plants," she recited.

"Really?"

"Yes. It's right there on page 943 ofrepparttar 111049 Household Ecosystem Analogies Management Guide."

Reluctantly, I bent down and sentrepparttar 111050 vacuum on its first sub-bed reconnaissance mission. Sigh. Who could have known that my wife had memorizedrepparttar 111051 entire Household Ecosystem Analogies Management Guide?

Still, I wondered whatrepparttar 111052 hippos were doing wading in our little forest.

David Leonhardt publishes The Happy Guy humor column: http://www.thehappyguy.com/positive-thinking-free-ezine.html And A Daily Dose of Happiness: http://www.thehappyguy.com/daily-happiness-free-ezine.html Read his personal growth articles at: http://www.thehappyguy.com/self-actualization-articles.html As well as owner of the Liquid Vitamin Supplements Store: http://www.vitamin-supplements-store.net


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