I think you guys are over reacting. If this baby isn't going to learn to swim now, then when? Babies need to prepare for life as well, and swimming in a river is a valuable life lesson that we should all experience. Good on these parents for taking advantage of the opportunity to teach this child something.
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I think you guys are over reacting. If this baby isn't going to learn to swim now, then when? Babies need to prepare for life as well, and swimming in a river is a valuable life lesson that we should all experience. Good on these parents for taking advantage of the opportunity to teach this child something.
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How the hell is swimming in a river a valuable life lesson? I can understand swimming, but why does it have to be in a river?
Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem taking a baby in a boat, assuming of course that they have a proper life jacket. How many of you actually have kids? They weren't white water rafting, were they?
I guess this would be akin to taking your kid in your car out on Deerfoot at rush hour.
Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem taking a baby in a boat, assuming of course that they have a proper life jacket. How many of you actually have kids? They weren't white water rafting, were they?
I guess this would be akin to taking your kid in your car out on Deerfoot at rush hour.
Except taking your kid in your car on Deerfoot during rush is a lot less dangerous. There is little chance that if you lean one way in your car that it will flip over and eject all occupants forcing them to cling to the car in order to avoid being swept away.
Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem taking a baby in a boat, assuming of course that they have a proper life jacket. How many of you actually have kids? They weren't white water rafting, were they?
I guess this would be akin to taking your kid in your car out on Deerfoot at rush hour.
Have you seen the water levels lately? Spring runoff and a month of rain has the Bow moving pretty quickly. I'm not a parent, so my opinion is invalid, but IMHO, you're crazy to be taking a baby on the river at this time of year.
Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem taking a baby in a boat, assuming of course that they have a proper life jacket. How many of you actually have kids? They weren't white water rafting, were they?
I guess this would be akin to taking your kid in your car out on Deerfoot at rush hour.
How often do you get to see your kids when they are in foster care?
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Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem taking a baby in a boat, assuming of course that they have a proper life jacket. How many of you actually have kids? They weren't white water rafting, were they?
I guess this would be akin to taking your kid in your car out on Deerfoot at rush hour.
I see where you are coming from but...
Infant life jackets are great, they are designed so that a baby floats on their back. But will that really do you a lot of good if when you flip you can't get to your baby, and watch as they are swept downriver to either eventually die of hypothermia or hit the weir?
Those life jackets are more useful for warmer climates and pools.
When we go floating this summer the wife and I will get a sitter for our daughter.
It's too hard to tell sometimes. Use a damn emoticon or something
Maybe it had to do with "what does swimming have to do with a river".
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Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem taking a baby in a boat, assuming of course that they have a proper life jacket. How many of you actually have kids? They weren't white water rafting, were they?
I guess this would be akin to taking your kid in your car out on Deerfoot at rush hour.
Given that most good life jackets start at 25 - 30 lbs, I find it very unlikely that the child would have been wearing adequate device. We bought one for my daughter when we were going to go boating when she was about 22 months and she was technically too small for it. They do have ones that are rated for less than that and realistically they are next to useless anywhere but a shallow pool where there is an adult standing there. Using them as a way to save a baby's life in a raging river is not very reliable.
As for it being as safe as Deerfoot, when I was taking my daughter out it was in a big motorboat on a very calm lake and still I was thinking that we shouldn't go.
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It's too hard to tell sometimes. Use a damn emoticon or something
I have noticed people pile on your posts quite often and I feel as though some people go a little overboard and are quick to comment. It could be because you are somewhat of a post whore or that you don't really read the entire thread and thus your posts are either a) redundant or b) entirely useless. You however have reached a new level in this thread.
Congrats!
Seriously though, you make me laugh, not really with you however...
Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem taking a baby in a boat, assuming of course that they have a proper life jacket. How many of you actually have kids? They weren't white water rafting, were they?
I guess this would be akin to taking your kid in your car out on Deerfoot at rush hour.
There's a big difference taking your kid in a raft down the Bow in June from doing it in September when it's lower and slower and alltogether safer. I wouldn't take my baby personally. Maybe when he's a year or two older. My wife and I enjoyed a float while she was pregnant (can't remember how far along), but it's no more dangerous than driving somewhere and wasn't an issue at all for us. The Bow is a very safe river under the right circumstances. Unless you're tying boats together and getting wasted there's very little that poses a danger from bearspaw to the west end of downtown.The people who freak out about it generally don't go rafting and don't know much about rivers.
Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem taking a baby in a boat, assuming of course that they have a proper life jacket. How many of you actually have kids? They weren't white water rafting, were they?
I guess this would be akin to taking your kid in your car out on Deerfoot at rush hour.
The kid was in the boat before she could crawl, true.
The differences......
The boat wasn't an inflatable dingy, it was a cabin cruiser.
The water wasn't a rushing river, it was a glass lake.
Maybe it had to do with "what does swimming have to do with a river".
I'm still confused. I was replying to the post where someone said swimming in a river is a valuable life lesson, and I responded with how is swimming in a river a valuable life lesson? Swimming is a valuable life lesson, but I dont see how swimming in a river is a valuable life lesson.
How many of you actually have kids? They weren't white water rafting, were they?
