Public service announcement

A boy almost drowned when we were at the pool on Saturday. It was awful. One moment, I saw a man sprint past me with panic in his eyes. The next thing I knew, the lifeguards were trying to resuscitate a little boy by the edge of the pool. It felt like they gave him CPR for ages. It was probably 5 minutes.

We hustled Molly and her friend outside to the car, not sure how to explain what was happening. As we were leaving, we saw a fireman running out with the boy's limp body in his arms. According to the news, he was breathing and had a pulse. I pray he's ok.

Another parent was walking around the pool muttering, blaming the father for not keeping track of his kid. But it could have happened to anyone. I was just on the other side of the pool. How was it possible that I didn't see this happening?

There are a million reasons. The pool was crowded. It was late in the day and half the pool was covered in shade. I can only feel so sorry for the family that this happened to.

In the future, I'm going to keep my eyes glued on Molly, and any other kid we bring with us to the pool, no matter how well they know how to swim. And I'm going to try to pay more attention to our surroundings.

I think it may also be time to take a refresher course in CPR. Whatever happened leading up to that point, the lifeguards undoubtedly saved his life by performing CPR until the firetrucks arrived.

I don't really have any pool safety tips for this PSA, but just wanted to put a reminder out there about how important it is to be hyper aware of everything that's happening with your kids in the pool!