Toddlers swim vests advice needed.

[Blondie1980s]

Help I need some recommendations.

My 2 year old had reached the I want to swim like the big stage.

When we are in the pool he won't go in his rubber ring. He climbs out.
He won't wear arm bands, no matter how tight they are on him he finds a way to get them off.

He even doesn't want to be held or propped up in the pool by me or daddy.

He has seen his older cousins swimming alone and that's what he wants to do.

Are the swim float vests any good ?
Are there any particular ones you would recommend?

Hopefully I can get him in swim lessons as the restrictions are easing.

Help greatly appreciated!

I never had any luck with swim vests - DS always managed to get upside down with his head under the water! We went back to arm bands.

We lived in the Mediterranean, with our own pool. The swim vests were great.

In their lessons they just those long foam noodles tied round the waist.
Armbands restrict movement.

Can he have a pool noodle to hold? He can hold it out in front and swim along in it.
Is there somewhere he can gradually get deeper while holding the noodle with you very close by?

Has he ever dipped under or be let go in water to deep for him?

My one year old has just started swimming with a pool noodle. Her arms go over the top and she kicks. I’m always next to her but no need for any arm bands or swim vests.

So far I've tried to tie a pool noodle around him but it seems to pop open. The pool is at home and it's a 5 foot all around.

We didn't bring him home to live with us till 11 months and has had no swimming lesson due to lockdowns. So far I've not had the heart to let him dunk. We blow bubbles with our mouth though.

At our kids’ lessons they tie the pool noodles around the weakest swimmers - worth a try if you’ve already got one?

I hope I don’t sound like a right meany here but I wonder if he needs to have a dip under or experience what going under water feels like. Obviously in a controlled and safe way. Not sure he’ll have motivation to hold on to the floats or stay in the ring until he realised the other option is dunking under.
You can find a gradual playful way to go under the water….I’m not suggesting just letting him go or anything

With my kids we had the rubber ring arm bands. They wore 3 on each arm when they couldn’t swim at all and then gradually went down to 2,1 then none as their swimming for better and they relied less on them.

Puddle jumpers!! They are they absolute best... all of my kids started wearing them around 2 years old. They are £10 at Costco or you can find them on Amazon for around £20. Trust me :)

These vests are good, you take out individual floats as they get better at swimming and need less buoyancy. They're based in Cornwall

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