Any distraction is dangerous and puts young children at risk around water.
The RLSS added that supervision is the single most important thing you can do to keep your children safe around water.
Because 'Kids can’t help themselves around water, you need to. Royal Life Saving is asking all parents to Supervise, Restrict, Teach and Respond to keep their children safe around water. For every toddler drowning death approximately eight children are admitted to hospital as a result of non-fatal drowning. 'Almost all of these deaths were due to a lack of active adult supervision. A spokesperson for the life saving society said: 'Royal Life Saving research found that 222 children aged one year have drowned over the past twenty years, equating to 40 percent of all child drowning under the age of five. The RLSS reports that the drowning risks triples when children turn one and 100 percent of deaths are due to lack or lapse of adult supervision. Respond - Learn how to respond in the case of an emergency Teach - Teach children water safety skills Restrict - Restrict children's access to water Supervise - Actively supervise children around water 'My family absolutely hate my baby's name - trolls say it sounds like a disease' How to keep children safe around water:
