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[quote=Anonymous]i am pretty cautious about the water, but I've never had my now 6-year-old wear a life jacket at the beach.

However, she is not/has never been a runner; she is usually dogging our heels. If she were a runner, I would likely do things differently.

When she was little (1-3), she usually played in the sand with me or my husband -- either way, she always had one parent's full attention. If she did go in the water, one of us was usually holding both of her hands in water no higher than our knees/her waist, or sitting beside her in water no more than two inches deep. My rule of thumb was I had to be close enough to her that I could run to her before she could run into the water.

As she has gotten older (4-6), we've eased up a bit. She's often playing in the sand with other (older) kids, and we'll let her go in the water by herself as far as her knees/thighs. (Note that, at the beach we go to, that means she's too far up the beach for a wave to crash over her. If the surf were different, I might make a different call.)

When we've been at beaches with low/no wave action, we've taken her out farther, but always holding on to her.

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