ISR of the Big Bend - Kelli Bevis

Happy Birthday America!🇺🇸 We would like to wish you a safe and happy Fourth of July! Please stay vigilant with the layers of protection and always assign a water watcher.
5 Keys to Water Safety:
Effective Adult Supervision
Alarm & Secure Doors (including Pet doors)
Pool Fences
Survival Swim Lessons
CPR
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Dad speaks out after saving 2-year-old daughter from drowning Matthew Shortridge said his daughter was "lifeless" when she was removed from the pool.

Layers 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 protection 👏🏻

Because this day could have been dramatic, never underestimate children's resourcefulness when they want to see something. As the summer season begins and we open our pools, be more than VIGILANT, an accident can happen in the blink of an eye!

This is so important!! Set up rules and boundaries around the water ASAP. Tune into the video for the details 👂📣 . . #sunshinewatersafety #parenttip #watersafetytip #selfrescue

Light a candle for this sweet boy and his mama tonight ❤️‍🩹

It’s Judah’s birthday today. To be really real, I don’t know what to do with myself. What should a mom do when she can’t have her child with her on his birthday ever again?

I went running this morning. Needed that. It helps settle my mind a bit.

I prayed and thought about my boy. I asked God to tell him happy birthday from momma. I’ve looked at pictures and watched videos and wanted to jump into the screen and disappear into them so that he would be alive again.

I shouldn’t have to imagine heaven to celebrate my child today. I should be able to walk into his room and wake him up with a big birthday hug.

I miss my child. Every second I miss him.

Today he would be 11-years-old. I lost him to drowning when he was 3.
I know God has him, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting him back every time I breathe.

Every year on each of my children’s birthdays, I quietly relive the days I gave birth to each of them and I’m doing that today through tears and the ache that only mommas with empty arms can understand.

At 9:15pm tonight, 11 years ago, I would have held my Judah in my arms for the very first time. At 9:15pm tonight, 8 years ago, I would have given him his very last birthday hugs and kisses.

At 9:15pm tonight, would you light a birthday candle in his honor and send me a photo in the comments below? Maybe we can shine those candles so bright that JuJu will see them from heaven. Would you do that? It would mean the world to me if you would. 💙💙💙

2 weeks before Anna died at the pool I was so stressed taking my 3 little kids to the pool all by myself. On the day she died I was not stressed or nervous. In fact, I remember thinking this is going to be great! It wasn’t going to be just me watching the kids but now I had my husband, sister, brother, SIL and even lifeguards all there to help me. So I let my guard down.

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IF EVERYONE IS WATCHING THE POOL…NO ONE IS WATCHING THE POOL

It’s actually a psych concept I teach my high school students called DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY. I tear up every time I explain it to them knowing that it was one of the many factors related to Anna’s death that day.

WATER IS DANGEROUS.

That doesn’t mean you can’t have fun in water but you need to RESPECT it and always be careful!

Assigning a WATER WATCHER or even just making sure you verbally tell someone to be responsible for the little ones in water while you take a break is a MUST when you’re at a pool. Don’t let your guard down.

In fact, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE 🙏

ALWAYS GUARD 4 ANNA AROUND WATER 💚💦