Another drowning incident, three children just graduated from the National Elementary School, met to the New Taipei City, the breeze of the canal next to the pier play water, but even to pick up the drink PET bottle and tragic drowning accident, to the two children's parents, is really how embarrassing! The children who have been brought up since childhood, and it was not easy for them to graduate from the elementary school, but overnight ....
Such water accidents are always in the news, causing great concern and pain in the community. In fact, Taiwan has long been known for its drowning incidents, only that people have not paid attention to them. According to the World Lifesaving Organization's 1990 statistics on the number of accidental drowning in the world for all ages, except for the Bahamas and the Soviet Union, Taiwan ranks third in the world. In recent years, under the enthusiastic efforts of national life-saving and rescue organizations to promote water safety and life-saving work, the number of drowning cases has been declining, but the figures are still quite alarming, and most of the drowning cases are among high school youths. According to the statistics of the Fire Department, among the drowning accidents in Taiwan in the summer of the last two years, "streams" were the places with the higher proportion of drowning accidents, and the number of drowning accidents continued to rise from May to August.
Despite all the reports of drowning incidents, there is still no way to deter or eliminate people who love to be near water. Especially in the hot summer, swimming and taking a dip in the water are the best way to cool down from the heat. Since there is no way to prohibit it, the government should provide more safe places for people to swim and play in the water to cool off.
Swimming is one of the quality exercises that are good for the body, mind and health. When the kindergarten announced the news of swimming, the children jumped and cheered with joy. On the first day of swimming lessons, there were only ten children in the whole kindergarten who did not bring any, which shows how much they were looking forward to it. Water is very attractive to children. It is not uncommon for them to go to the toilet, wash their hands and play in the water.
Playing in sand and water is the favorite of children, and Renhe has created such an environment with a special swimming pool and sand court for toddlers. The pool built in 1966 is divided into two, one is a plum-shaped play pool with water depth of 30-45 centimeters and water slides and water jets, allowing children to learn about water in the water; the other is a rectangular training pool with a length of eight meters and a width of four meters and a water depth of 65-75 centimeters, which provides children who are already familiar with water to enter the pool to practice their swimming skills; in 1968, the founder of the school found that the swimming skills were not the purpose of the preschoolers' swimming, so he invested money to convert it into the current equipment. In 1984, the founder realized that swimming skills were not the goal of the preschoolers, so he invested in the current facility, which is now a circular swimming pool with a depth of 30 centimeters to 50 centimeters, a slide at the shallow end, a round turntable at the deep end, and a cable car.
The purpose of preschool swimming is not to train skills, how far will swim, the important thing is to let children play with water, from water play in the water is not afraid of water, to overcome the fear of water, to understand the water, water qualities, water has buoyancy. Let the children in the safe pool, like a fish in the water, free to walk, skating slides, play the game of the cave, water fights, experience the fun of playing water. Under the teacher's guidance, children will learn to blow bubbles with their mouths, hold their breath for three to five seconds, float with their shoulders, let go of their hands, hit the water, slide their hands, and then learn how to change air in the water.
Most of the general swimming pools do not have special equipment for children, which is actually quite dangerous; the water quality is chlorinated and then filtered. On the other hand, Yanhee's swimming pool is ventilated and safe, only kindergarten children use it, and the water is changed once a week (a bit wasteful, but for the sake of the children's health...), so that the children can learn happily in a safe environment, which is our responsibility.
Peace and happiness.
Mandy
English 
繁體中文 
日本語 
한국어