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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this isn’t helpful for you op but I hope other parents reading this take this as a lesson- parents should never use water wings to start with. They do not help kids to swim. [/quote]

Yeah i fewl bad for op because obviously that info doesn't help you and you dont need a reason to feel worse, but to anyone else with toddlers, stop now![/quote]

Eh, if you use them in coordination with regular swim lessons, it's fine. My kid used a puddle jumper (like a mini vest with attached wings) at the public pool until she was 5. We'd let her use it most of the time we were at the pool, but we'd encourage her to take it off for short periods to practice stuff from swim class. Sometimes she'd fight us on that, but usually she was fine with it as long as we were right next to her the whole time. One day she just said she didn't need it and she hasn't used it since.

Sometimes with kids who are sensitive or more fearful generally, it's necessary to give them a more gradual way to do something scary. Water wings or similar can be that for swimming -- it gets them in the water, it offers them a sense of security for a time. If you couple it with ALSO making sure they are learning the skills they will need to swim without the flotation device, it's okay. You just have to pay attention and keep encouraging them and moving them towards independent swimming, and not just figure "eh, they have water wings on, they'll get it eventually."

It does not have to be either or.[/quote]

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