You could, you know, teach them how to swim? The reason so many children die of drowning is that so many don't know how to swim. MIT literally has a swim test requirement to graduate college for exactly this reason.
This. Seriously. It's completely different from letting older kids play unsupervised in the backyard. Toddlers easily drown in a garden pond, let alone a swimming pool. Leaving a toddler alone near a body of water, even for five minutes is asking for a catastrophe.
MIT has a swim test requirement for to 21-year-old students to graduate in order to prevent children from drowning? Am I parsing your sentence correctly?
It was originally instituted because a student drowned in the Charles river because he didn't know how to swim. Age might be different, but the majority of people who drown don't know how to swim. Teach your kids to swim, they are WAY less likely to drown.
