Why do children drown in rural areas in summer? Why can't it be stopped?

There is a reservoir in the village next to us. It has not been used for decades. Several people drown every year. The old people say that this reservoir is particularly "greedy"! The most bizarre thing is that one year two young women drowned while bathing in the reservoir at night!

This reservoir is very large, and the water is very clear and cool. It is said that the two young women's home is not far from the reservoir. They took advantage of the dark conditions at night to meet up to take a bath at the reservoir. In fact, there was another woman traveling with them. , but she didn’t drown. When the two young women sank to the bottom, she ran back to the village to call for help!

That night, the villagers rushed to rescue them, but no one was seen at all. The surviving woman said that she was "dragged down". After hearing this, no one dared to go into the water to rescue them. , only their family members were left there howling!

The next day, the village specially hired a salvage team, the kind that could dive. They went down to search for half an hour, and two people were fished out. They said they were entangled in aquatic plants underneath. Those two people The state cannot be described here!

Before this, several people drowned every year, either children or fishermen. They all said that there were "weird" in the reservoir, and the rumors were very evil. After diving this time, everyone I’m not that scared anymore, but I heard that the fish in this reservoir are indeed quite big!

When I was in school, I could hear stories of children drowning every summer. Later in the city, apart from what I saw online, it was really rare.

Most of the children who drowned were from rural areas, or those who returned to their hometowns to visit relatives in the city. I think the main reason for this situation is the problem of school and family education management.

I often went swimming in the reservoir when I was a child. My teachers and parents often talked about it, but I didn’t listen at all. I sneaked out at noon while my parents were resting!

Why do such things rarely happen in the city? It’s because the cultural and entertainment life in the city is relatively rich, and there are many tutoring classes for children during the holidays. The children have no time to play in the wild, even if there are ponds in the city , generally have railings for better protection.

But in rural areas, children are like "herding sheep" after school. Parents only think of looking for their children when eating, and there are relatively few entertainment methods for children. Fishing in the water and bathing in the river are the most common. entertainment mode, which increases the risk factor!

Therefore, in view of this situation:

First, schools should strengthen education, vigorously publicize the dangers of playing with water, and shoot some educational materials on preventing children from drowning, so that children can learn from it. I'm afraid of this.

Second, parents should take control of their children and give them something to do during the holidays. It is not easy to raise a child. In the past few years, after the college entrance examination, several students were drowned at once. It was too tragic. Got it!

Third, society should have supervision. For some open reservoirs, either warnings and protections should be provided, or special personnel should be assigned to take care of them. This can largely reduce the occurrence of drowning.

The lesson is painful, but if it doesn’t happen to you, people will just listen to it and read it as a story. When it really happens to you, it will be too late!

When I was about seven years old, I went to the river with a few children to play. There were many fish in the river, and the river was also shallow. Some children rolled up their pants and stood on the edge to catch them. fish.

After watching it for a while, I felt itchy and thought that the water was not deep anyway and everyone was standing on the edge scratching, so nothing would happen.

So I rolled up my pants and jumped into the water and started catching fish. This is a very exciting thing. It makes people very excited whether they can catch it or not. If they can catch it, they will be even happier, as if there is some magic.

I was too involved in grabbing and failed to stand properly. As a result, I slipped and fell into a deep place. What was it like at that time? It felt like the water wasn't very deep, but I just couldn't stand up. You can expose your head by running away, and it should be no more than the top of your head if you stand up straight, but no matter how hard you struggle, you can't stand up straight.

Even after drinking a few sips of water, I had no strength left. At this time, a big hand appeared, reached out and grabbed me, picked me up and threw me to the shore. I lay on the shore for a while before I realized that I almost drowned just now.

This is something I personally experienced when I was a child.

It is a tragedy that happens in many places when children play by the water and drown. Every summer, schools take the trouble to hold meetings with parents to teach students not to play near the water or get close to the river.

However, there are still reports of children drowning from time to time. Many people are wondering, what happened? Why can't it be eliminated?

Sister-in-law Hei, tell me your opinion. Ⅰ: The river has a huge magic power for children

There is a strange phenomenon. No matter whether they are boys or girls, they have no resistance to playing by the river. I don’t know why, but people like to go to the river. , it would be even more fun if you could catch some fish, touch some shrimps, and catch a few river clams.

Both adults and children are always very interested in playing by the river.

Our village is close to the Wei River. As long as I can remember, several children in our village alone have drowned in the Wei River. Among the children of the same age as Mrs. Hei, there were two brothers. After lunch, they went to the river, held hands and jumped into the river and never came out again. At that time, there were many people enjoying the shade under the bridge. By the time they remembered it, the two of them had drowned.

A child went to the river to play with his brother and his friends. He slipped into the river and never came out. When he was fished out, his hands were raised into fists and his lips were blue. I saw it with my own eyes and could feel that he was suffering endless pain in the water.

The year before last, three children were playing by the river after dinner. All three children had passed the high school entrance examination and were all fifteen or sixteen years old. While Hei's wife's cousin was tending sheep, she looked at the three children at first, and then only one of them was left in the blink of an eye.

He hurried down and asked, but the child was squeaking and couldn't explain why. The cousin quickly jumped down and fished it out on the spot, but both children had drowned.

And how deep was the place where they drowned? There was about fifty centimeters of water, which meant that two children, aged fifteen or sixteen, drowned in forty to fifty centimeters of water.

According to the third child, one child slipped in and the other went to pull it, but was pulled in by the river.

Some people may wonder to Xuanqi, how could such a large child drown in such shallow water? Maybe there's something strange going on. Actually, no. Didn’t Sister-in-law Hei tell her own experience above? At that time, I felt that the water was not deep, but I couldn't stand up. I don't know whether it was because I was scared or panicked, but I just couldn't stand up.

I believe that after the first child slipped in, he was too panicked to stand up. After the person who pulled him was brought in, the two of them became even more panicked, trying to climb out, but neither could stand up straight. It's not surprising that they drowned together.

Rivers, especially rivers with fish and shrimps, have a strange magic for children. They like to play by the river, regardless of boys or girls.

Catching fish is the earliest hunting behavior of humans. People have an interest in it engraved in their genes, and they will feel a special sense of accomplishment after catching it.

As the old saying goes, if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet? Since there are more people going to play, accidents will happen. This is a matter of probability and has nothing to do with superstition or mystery.

Why can’t it be eliminated? Ⅱ: Parents and teachers cannot always follow their children

A few days ago, Heisao Girls’ School held two parent-teacher meetings in a row, all of which were about drowning prevention. The only thing the teacher emphasizes is that parents and teachers must cross-supervise their children. It's not to supervise whether they will get flooded, but to supervise them and not let them go to the river to play.

But everyone also knows that neither teachers nor parents can always be with the children. Therefore, countless parents will come up with ways to scare their children. This is not new now, it existed in rural areas in the past.

Sister-in-law Hei heard too many stories like this when she was a child, so she memorized a saying that was often said by rural elders at that time: Be afraid of ghosts at home, and be afraid of water when going out.

We all know that there are no ghosts in this world, but when people are alone, they often associate noises with ghosts. When they go out, water is as scary as ghosts, because They are all unknown and unpredictable.

But were the children frightened? Not really!

In order to prevent their children from playing by the river, many parents have gone to great lengths to prevent their children from playing by the river. The children have also gone to great lengths in order to be able to play, such as shaving their own heads so that they will be healthy when they get out of the water. It's not easy for parents to find out.

Neither parents nor teachers want anything to happen to their children, let alone drowning. But neither parents nor teachers can follow their children all the time. Of course the children didn't want to drown, but they couldn't bear the temptation to play in the water.

Some people say that this cannot be prevented? It's very difficult. We can't drain the river dry because of this, right? We can't put railings on the river because of this, can we? Even if he pretends, the children will still get in and play.

Therefore, the only thing that can be done is to constantly emphasize the dangers of this matter and plant the idea in their minds to stay away from the river, so that they will go less often or not. This method is very passive, but there is nothing proactive about it.

Some people say that they can be taught to swim or something. How many of those who drowned can’t swim? There is a deep connection between drowning and whether you can swim. However, from a probability perspective, people who can swim are more likely to drown. Because he thought he could swim, he was not afraid.

Sometimes, it is not a bad thing to give children a fear of water. At least it can make them think more when they want to play. And if you think more about this, sometimes it will save the children. fate.

III: It is undeniable that children will drown no matter where they are. No matter how old a child is, no matter whether they can swim or not, if they go into water, there is a possibility of drowning. Any child who drowns is a complete tragedy. Sister-in-law Hei witnessed her mother holding her drowned son, crying so hard that she suffocated and went into shock again and again.

You can deeply understand the mother's pain and regret. Raising such a big child and drowning can destroy the parents, both psychologically and physically.

But unfortunately, every summer, we can always see or hear such tragedies. How to avoid it? How to prevent it? This is a question that still needs serious consideration, what do you think?

First of all, the question raised by the subject may be a bit one-sided.

Every year before summer comes, teachers in every primary and secondary school will send a leaflet to every parent in advance, explaining how parents and teachers can work together to prevent their children from drowning. . In the summer, primary and secondary school students have summer vacation. During this more than a month, drowning incidents of primary and secondary school students may occur. Relevant education departments, teachers, and other departments have given clear instructions on this. Parents of every primary and secondary school student must supervise their children during the summer vacation. They must not let their children play in some rivers and fish ponds, let alone bathe in the water privately, and take all possible measures to prevent their children from drowning.

Nowadays, every family in rural areas basically only has one or two children. For parents, every child is protected and loved as if it were their own life. Every child is the future of the country and the hope of the nation. Every parent will definitely supervise and educate their children as summer approaches, so that they can eliminate the risk of drowning in summer.

There are ponds, streams, rivers and other water bodies in rural areas. Children may drown if they go out to play in the water. This may be related to the fact that the children and their guardians do not pay enough attention. Ju Xiaocai lives in Guangxi, the south of my country, and there are many outdoor water bodies. Let’s talk about it below:

Family education

In rural areas, Rivers, ponds and other places with water are very common, but children are not as alert and self-rescuing as adults. The water is not as safe as the ground. If an accident occurs, the risk is high. And adults are also busy with various farm work. It is impossible. They keep an eye on the children at home all day long or take them out to work all the time. And the adults are also afraid that the children will have accidents when they go out to play in the water by themselves or with other children, so they will arrange simple cooking and feeding. Household chores such as feeding pigs, chickens and ducks must be done by children when they come home from school. Children do not have so much time to go out. I usually tell children many times not to run around and play in the water in reservoirs and other places. Go out and play with water quilts. Adults know that they will be spanked, kicked and not allowed to eat, and other punishments, and these are real punishments, children generally do not dare to mess around; and after children go to school, the teachers in the school will also provide education on drowning prevention, how many children Also know something.

There is also a lot of farm work to be done in the countryside during the hot summer. Reservoirs, rivers and other places with water are generally not far from crop planting areas. Go out to do farm work. If adults see children playing in the water, whether they are their own children or the children of relatives, they will remind them that swimming there is not safe enough. If you go home and take a shower a few times, you will feel cooler. Don't always go into the water because it is hot. Go play, and if you don’t obey again, tell the child’s parents... Children will generally listen to the advice, but there are a few children who think they are good at water and are not afraid of anything and everything. They do not listen to the advice and continue to play in the water. , but they no longer swim to deep water, but play in shallow water closer to the shore.

School education

With the improvement of living standards in rural areas, there are more activities for children to play, and there are not as many children in the family as before, and there are usually people watching. , there are fewer children who go out to play in the water. Nowadays, rural areas are like cities. There are kindergartens. You can only go to elementary school after going to kindergarten. Children go to kindergarten when they are young. In the kindergarten, teachers will also teach about drowning prevention. It can be said that education is taken very seriously.

Let’s take a local side dish as an example. I am a mother and my child is in kindergarten. We live near the sea. Every semester, especially in the spring semester, the teacher teaches children several times about drowning safety. content, and also required parents to watch videos on DingTalk with their children to learn, and after signing, some relevant anti-drowning safety knowledge materials were sent back for parents and children to learn and understand together, and were also distributed to the class group so that children could remember to prevent drowning. The "six don'ts" of drowning, correct rescue when someone is drowning, self-rescue and other important contents. As a parent, I will also test my children from time to time. I found that he took it to heart. A few days ago, he even asked me: I wanted to go swimming, and then I asked where to go, and he said to go to the swimming pool. I watched him swim, and then I asked, can I go to the river, and he said no...

"If you often walk by the river, how can your shoes not get wet?" Some children think that they have played with water a lot, and it is not the first time. With experience, it is not Something will happen, so you go out to play secretly, and when the accident happens, there is no use regretting it; as people here often say, people who can swim are more likely to drown, because people who can't swim are afraid of not being able to swim. Dare to go swimming randomly, but people who can swim rely on their own strengths, and they are not afraid of this or that. If they rush in randomly, they are likely to encounter danger.

How can I say that the children’s guardians do not pay attention to them? In their opinion, they were born in a water town. They did not play in the water less when they were young, and their parents did not take care of them. They did not grow up well. Well, when they become parents, they don’t care so much about their children going out to swim and play in the water; and some children are left-behind children whose parents are not around, and their grandparents/grandparents as guardians usually don’t care much about where the children go. They didn't know it until the drowning incident happened, and they cried bitterly, but they could no longer save the child's life.

In general, the safety knowledge related to preventing drowning should not only be learned and passed on, but then ignored. The children themselves and their guardians must always pay attention to it and not take any chances, otherwise it will decrease. Even prevent children from drowning.

Note: The picture comes from the Internet and has been deleted due to infringement.

When the sample is large enough, such as China's 1.4 billion people, it cannot be 100%. So there are always people who die in various accidents, and it is impossible to 100% live to old age. Hope you can understand.

Because the weather is hot in summer and the students are ignorant, they just want to take a bath to cool off. And they also have a lucky mentality. With so many people taking a bath, how many drowned? How could it possibly drown me?

As for its elimination, how can it be eliminated? In our school, we let students read the anti-drowning notice and also let them take it home to show their parents. Moreover, every time there is a regular teacher meeting, the school always emphasizes remembering to tell students not to go into the river to bathe. The head teacher said it sincerely every time, but what was the result? There are a few particularly naughty people in our school who asked for leave from the teacher and said they wanted to go back and get their ID cards (you need to hand in your ID cards for the academic exams, which will be managed uniformly at that time). Those who didn't hand over their ID cards took the leave note and walked out of the school. They had already handed it in before. Those who were tired climbed out of the wall, and then ran to the river to take a bath together. A teacher from a brother school happened to see them coming ashore and took a photo of them for us. Later, the head teacher came to see them, but they refused to admit it until they took out the photos and admitted that they had been washed. When asked how many times they had been washed, they said it was just this time. In fact, who knows how many times but themselves? I can only say that luckily nothing happened, otherwise the school would have been in trouble...

Most people in rural areas can't swim, and they can't find a way to let their children learn to swim. It's not surprising that they drown!

Indeed, every summer, especially during the summer vacation, you will see news of teenagers drowning and dying from time to time, which is very sad.

To be honest, it is difficult to prevent tragedies from happening. We can only minimize the occurrence of such incidents.

I remember seeing a news story some time ago, where a child accidentally fell into the water and drowned while playing near a river. Later, his parents went to court to sue, suing the relevant unit for not installing guardrails on both sides of the river, which led to the accident.

First of all, I deeply sympathize with the child’s death, but don’t the child’s guardians have any responsibility for such a result?

Children are still children. Their understanding of their own abilities and their judgment of dangerous environments are far from adequate. This is also the main reason for such accidents.

As a child's guardian, you not only bear the responsibility of raising the child, but also have the obligation to educate the child and protect the child.

It can be said that the vast majority of drowning accidents among teenagers are caused by inadequate supervision by the child's guardian. There is no need to question or refute this point.

This is also why drowning incidents are more likely to occur in rural areas.

As we all know, in many rural areas, there are a large number of left-behind children and left-behind elderly people who take care of them. Whether it is educational concepts or educational methods, these old people have more than they can afford.

As far as I know, every time before a holiday, basically primary and secondary schools will issue some notices such as "A Letter to Parents", requiring children to take it home for their parents to sign, and then send the parents Take your signature back to school.

Most of the content is to advise parents to pay attention to the safety of their children during the holidays, such as fire protection, electricity protection, drowning prevention, etc.

This approach has a good intention, but it is more of a mere formality.

No matter what kind of reminder to parents, if the school does not regularly carry out relevant education work, to be honest, it is of little significance.

The school issues these notices, on the one hand, because the higher education department has regulations that must be issued, and on the other hand, if an accident occurs, the school is basically not responsible, because there are parents’ signatures, indicating that the work has been done. It's in place, but parents didn't pay attention to it.

In reality, many parents do not pay attention to it. When they see similar notices, they basically just sign it without even reading the specific content.

If parents don’t pay attention, they will be careless and may create hidden dangers for accidents.

I once saw a video on the Internet. A foreign baby who was just a few months old was placed in a swimming pool by his father and allowed to play freely without any life-saving equipment.

Watching the child float up and down, I felt my heart was in my throat, but after a while, the child seemed to have adapted to the water environment and miraculously started swimming.

It can be said that this is unacceptable to most parents in the country and will not be tried.

Yes, due to different educational concepts, many children in China cannot swim at all, and even lack the most basic self-protection skills in the water.

However, water has an inexplicable "temptation" for children. It can be said that 99% of children like to play with water, but because of their age, they lack the fear of water.

Parents should understand the simplest truth. Children can play with water, which is one of the fun of their childhood. But let them understand where the water can be played and where the water cannot be touched. This is what parents need to pay attention to.

There was a time when there was a discussion on the Internet proposing to open swimming classes in schools. However, this idea was difficult to implement. First of all, a small space was a big problem.

There is an old saying, "Those who drown are those who can swim." For adults, this is true. Because most people who cannot swim are unwilling or afraid to go into the water, naturally there will be no drowning accidents.

But for children, they don’t understand this, which requires parents to pay attention to it. Regardless of whether a child can swim or not, parents should anticipate potential dangers and avoid them.

Let me talk about my insights after returning to the countryside for a year. Most of the children in the countryside are taken care of by their grandparents. During meal time, the adults roared at the door, and the children went home. Most children don't run too far and just play nearby, but entertainment facilities in the countryside are limited. They all rely on entertaining themselves, catching insects, fishing, and stealing fruits from other people’s gardens. Many ditches and ponds in rural areas have no safety measures. And children have no awareness of danger. I don’t know the depth. Without their parents around, they don't know how high the sky is. It's hot in the summer, so I go into the water to take a bath, touch screws, and catch fish. Accidents can easily occur if you are not careful. It's basically hopeless to wait until the parents find out. There are few people in the countryside, and most of them are old people. Moreover, many old people are deaf and have weak legs and feet. Even if someone calls and they hear it and they actually run to the water, they have already missed the best time. My daughter is 6 years old. Although she has been back for almost a year, I follow her wherever she goes. I am afraid that something might happen to her. Many old people say, "You don't have to do anything all day. Follow her." I say the biggest thing for our family is It's her, nothing happens except her. Those old people don't understand when I say this. Anyway, I will never let my daughter out of my sight. I like to think wildly. I am not at ease without seeing my daughter [tears]

When summer comes, the weather is hot and drowning accidents occur frequently, and the number of drowning accidents among rural children is much higher than that among urban children. The reasons are:

First, rural areas are vast, and ditches, ponds, rivers, dams and wells are widely distributed and ubiquitous. Many of them have no warning signs, are unattended, and have complicated water conditions. There are hidden dangers in production safety in many places.

Second, rural parents have more chores, and many of them belong to left-behind families. The children are not adequately cared for, often go out together, lack the necessary knowledge on drowning prevention, cannot swim and do first aid, and have a sense of luck. After the accident, people panicked and responded improperly, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries.

Third, rural children’s weekend activities are limited and they lack necessary entertainment venues. After going out to play and sweating all over, playing in the water becomes the only way to go. Children in the city, on the other hand, don’t have much space to move around and have few opportunities to play by the water. And there is no suitable place to go into the water in the city. Even if children come to play by the water, pedestrians will detect and stop them in time.

To prevent such incidents from happening again, the supervision and services of grassroots social organizations must be in place.

First, it is necessary for rural communities to establish public swimming pools, pools and other open-air or indoor venues for public welfare activities for minors to learn to swim, play in water, and improve their self-rescue abilities.

Because today’s rural children may not be as good at swimming as urban children.

Second, during weekends and holidays, the community strengthens safety patrols in dangerous waters. All dangerous waters are subject to daily safe and loophole-free supervision. One person, one post, and dedicated personnel are responsible to prevent minors from approaching such waters.

The third is to establish an early warning mechanism to prevent drowning. We should work together to control the situation. When someone discovers minors playing with water in the wild, they should be more vigilant, set up a public welfare reporting hotline, and get in touch with their families and the community as soon as possible.