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[quote=Anonymous]Look my kid is a great swimmer who started learning how to swim at 3 but also used a puddle jumper sometimes from age 3 to 5 and it did not result in us ignoring her in the pool nor did it delay her swimming development. It enabled us to take her to the pool more often and to stay longer when we did.

We also sometimes used teaching aids like the flotation device you can strap to a kids back or stomach or the barbells they hold in front of the to practice kicking and breathing technique. But it was nice to have something we could put her in when she just wanted to chill in the water that was more secure than a regular floating tube or something (which a kid that small could easily fall through or lose hold of and if she was tired or panicked might not know how to handle).

It was fine. People who are adamantly against the use of puddle jumpers are fixating on specific scenarios (parents who put their kids in floaties and then leave them unattended, people who use flotation devices in lieu of teaching their kids to swim, people who rely on flotation devices to avoid teaching basic water safety). I agree they should not be used in those ways. But that does not mean that any use of a puddle jumper is de facto bad for kids.

This is just like those people who believe anything other than breastfeeding for the first year will make your child stupid. Or people who yell at you for letting your kid fall asleep in a carseat. It's just a weirdly rigid and context-free approach to parenting.[/quote]

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