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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no dog in this fight as we never bought a puddle jumper (ironically more so out of cheapness/laziness) but it seems the "documented dangers" are anecdotal? I mean those stories are terrifying but don't kids who have never had puddle jumpers also drown? How do we know it's the puddle jumper at fault and not the lack of supervision?[/quote]

It is absolutely lack of supervision and access to poorly secured pools, but it makes people feel better to blame puddle jumpers. I get it-- if my kid fell in a pool and drowned, I would also want to blame the manufacturer of puddle jumpers for tricking me into a "false sense of security" rather than ask myself hard questions about how my child who could not swim wound up in a pool without being in arms reach of an adult.

In the link someone posted up thread, you see this logical leap on clear display. The post rants about how puddle jumpers teach kids to be in the wrong position in the water, how her son likely believed that he would float when he fell in the water. But how did her young son with no water safety skills wind up in a pool on his own? That doesn't just happen. But that's why he died.

Ironically, if he'd been wearing a puddle jumper when he fell in, he might have lived.

If you are always within arms reach of your child in the pool until you know they can safely swim to the side of the pool from the middle without assistance, then there is no added risk from using a puddle jumper.

If you have a backyard pool or use one regularly, you should prioritize making sure your kids can swim as soon as possible and invest heavily in securing the pool. In that situation I would probably eschew puddle jumpers, but that's largely because the risks associated with a backyard pool when you have young kids are extremely high. Most people are not in that situation.[/quote]

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