Ponds with young kids

Do any of you have a fence around your pond? We want to put a fence around around our pond for a few years. Does anyone have pictures and ideas??
Thanks

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My parents have 2 ponds in their back yard and I am not happy about my son being around them when I go to visit them next, I am going to suggest that for the time being they put chicken wire over the top. My husband fell into ap ond once and has never really gotten over it!! I am a really easy going mother in terms of safety, but ponds make me nervous as does drowning in general....

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We just put one in and for now will be doing nothing. When he gets older we might put wire over the top but not until he is a lot older. He will not be alone in the backyard for many many years.

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we have a big pond, and have to start looking into a fence because Matthew...Im hoping will be walking soon

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I have a pondless pond. The water flows into rocks instead of a pool of water. I didn't think it would be pretty but it really looks nice. Now I don't have to think twice about my DD running around by it.

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Thanks. The pondless pond sounds nice to me, but we have fish in it. So that won't work.
I will never leave my son in the yard alone either, but the fish are always attracting him over there and I would like some kind of fencing as extra protection. With two young children, just being in the yard is not good enough.