Reply to Do you make your kid wear a life jacket at the beach all the time?

Forum Index » Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers

Reply to "Do you make your kid wear a life jacket at the beach all the time?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My 2.5 yo just sits and plays in the sand or stomps in the 2 inch surf with close parental supervision, so he does not wear a life jacket.

My 4.5 yo wore a life jacket for the first time this year (OBX) and it was awesome! He was in the water non-stop and got to venture out a little bit deeper. It was a lot more fun and relaxing because he was more buoyant and loved jumping and body surfing and boogie boarding (close to shore). He would be in the waves almost nonstop for 2+ hours each day. That can be exhausting when you're lifting a kid through the waves and bracing for bigger crashes so it was more fun for the parents too. We still stayed with him and watched him like a hawk, but now we could swim a few feet away and he could get tossed by a wave but still come up laughing and loving it. And he could paddle back to me, which was knew this year. He would shout, I'm swimming I'm swimming! So much easier than last year when he would hang on and drag me down and I had to support his weight fully and keep his sputtering face out of the water when a wave hit.

All this to say that a life jacket might be a good fit for your kid if they are adventurous in the water but not strong swimmers yet. If the waves are strong where you are and the depth varies quickly from shallow to deep as the swells go by, you might enjoy it![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics