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[quote=Anonymous]We have a beach house and rising girl/boy twins.

Bringing teens to the beach is exhausting.  My max has always been 6 and I don't bring coed groups.  I'm so happy that they're almost 18 because that means next summer everyone can go on their own and I won't have to supervise. The worst was when they were 15 and I had kids (guests) sneaking out at 1am and I was up in the middle of the night wondering if I should call the parents or not.  It was stressful.

As to drowning?  It's highly, highly unlikely if the kids only swim on a guarded beach.  At our beach in NJ there was a drowning last summer (someone swimming on an unguarded beach) and an article I read said something like there hasn't been a drowning on a guarded beach in 50 years in this town.

Of course, you can't guarantee that the kids won't swim after hours.  I have this conversation with them every year and hope they listen.  But if they're dumb enough to do this, they're probably doing equally dumb things at home in DC.  At some point you have to trust them and hope they survive the teen years.

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