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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Puddle jumpers put them in the wrong body position. [b]They actually delay learning to float and self rescue.[/b] So many parents of drowned toddlers are vehemently against the puddle jumper. You’d have to live under a rock not to know this. If your kid finds water during a non-swimming time, they jump in thinking they will float and then they don’t. [/quote]

There is absolutely no evidence that the bolded is true. There may be specific situations where parents put kids in puddle jumpers or life jackets for years and never give them proper swimming lessons where they learn to turn to their back, but we taught our kid these skills concurrently with using the puddle jumper for water play and relaxation and there was no confusion. The kid clearly knew when they weren't in the puddle jumper and was initially quite scared because they couldn't feel that buoyancy, and that helped us show her how to create her own buoyancy using body position. It in no way inhibited learning and she's now a terrific swimmer at age 6.[/quote]

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