Sammy Sea Patrol: A Giveaway

I love Summer.  It signifies that magical time of year when you can shoo the kids outside to play in a nice shady area, thus leaving your house slightly less decimated, and you free to tool around on the internet.

Oh, and it also means Christmas.

And 7 weeks of school holidays, which means that our standard trampoline and sandpit just don't cut it for entertainment factor over such an extended period. 

The Feral Threesome have been whining for a pool since they were old enough to whine.  Total shades of me, as I claimed desperate pool need as a child too....only to have #1Pop disgustedly point at the ocean down the road, saying I had the biggest pool in the world.

Currently they get their aquatic fill at swimming lessons, visiting the #1Grandparents' house on the coast, and when we go to Bali - which we are doing again for Christmas...in exactly 32 days.  I will think of you all slaving over lavish Christmas Feasts while I attempt to pronounce all the names on the cocktail list at the swim up bar.

Spending so much time around swimming pools and the beach, water awareness and safety is paramount.

I'll never forget a previous holiday, where Miss5 (at the time) was getting into the pool with me.  She was following behind me, walking down a set of steps that led into the water.  I turned around to tell her she should stop a few steps back where she could stand, but it was too late - she had continued walking beyond her height and was well and truly under water.  It happened instantly, silently, and within arm's reach of me.  And this was a girl who could swim, having attended regular swimming lessons since she was 1.

She was fine, nothing more than a fright and coughing up half a lung.  But it will forever stay with me - how quickly and quietly things could've gone horribly and tragically wrong.

Now, that there isn't a tale you'd want to use with small children to convey the importance of water safety.  That one is for the parents.

Instead, Sammy Sea Patrol is a much brighter, far more age appropriate means of conveying water awareness to small children.

Thankfully, there's not a hint of David Hasselhoff circa Baywatch 1993.

Sammy comes with a 10 year warranty, and is intended to be used as a role play toy to promote water awareness in children as young as 18 months.

Or, in the Twin Tornado's case, for sucking on, yelling at, and trading in the bath in exchange for Mermaid Dora.

Thanks to WOW toys, I have a Sammy Sea Patrol to giveaway, just in time to spread the water safety awareness before the heat of summer signals the onset of beach and pool season.

For your chance to win:

Follow this blog, so that I may dream up ways in which to take the piss out of David Hasselhoff's Baywatch years, now that I've been reminded of them.

Comment below with your best water safety tip for kids

Mine is simple - don't go anywhere near the water without Mum or Dad.  It's basic, fundamental, and simple.  And it seems to be working, so far.

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Entries close midnight (WST) Wednesday 28th November
which will be 23 days until I am lazing by a pool in Bali

The fine print:

• Entry is open to Australian residents only
• One (1) entry for following and commenting
• One (1) entry for Tweeting the above link
• One (1) entry for Facebook sharing the above link
• Entries close midnight (WST) Wednesday 28 November
• Winner announced on this blog Thursday 29 November
• Winner has seven (7) days to respond, before I take to my bath with wine and Sammy Sea Patrol to discuss what went wrong, and then conduct a redraw as supervised by Sammy.