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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes. Reading along here and thinking about it-where I live unfortunately drownings happen due to the large amount of home pools (FL). In news coverage, it's always the child going out the door unnoticed to the pool area, pool gate left open, distracted adults at a party not watching, ect. Small children unfortunately are attracted to water whether they've ever worn a puddle jumper or not. The issue is an unsecured home pool.

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This. It's almost always a child under 3 who went into the pool alone. Recently a friend's child drove a little motorized car into the pool when the nanny wasn't looking and drowned. It's not because kids are wearing puddle jumpers while their parents are an arm's reach away that is the big risk. People shrieking in here about it have no clue what they are talking about.[/quote]

Many 3 year olds, especially the ones belonging to the lazy parents here, are not supervised every single second. Why not give them the best possible chance? Because - mom wants to be able to sit in her pool chair and not in the pool.[/quote]

You keep saying this and yet 100% of the accidental drowning I read about involve kids who got access to a pool without their parents knowing.

I am unaware of a single child drowning WHILE wearing a life vest, and also I don't personally know anyone who would allow a kid in the pool with a life vest so they could sit under an umbrella somewhere else.[/quote]

Go to any community or private club pool in the DMV this summer during the daytime and stay at least 15 minutes. You will see someone clip a puddle jumper on a kid a let them into the pool without an adult. [/quote]

Uh, no. This is explicitly not allowed at either our public school or our private club. Public pool requires an adult to be with any kid wearing a flotation. Private club only allows flotation devices in shallow end and also requires parental supervision-- kids are required to pass a swimming test in order to swim in areas that don't require parental supervision.[/quote]

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