When it comes to water safety for children, there's a number of different ways you can keep your little one afloat - swim rings, sit in floats, foam floats and ride-on inflatables. But the oldest and the best are the armbands, and I went for the BEMA Armbands. A word of note however, I purchased the BEMA Armbands in birth - 12 months size and got almost no use out of them because my little girl was too small to understand she needed to hold her head up and paddle, we ended up using a sit in float from Mothercare until she was one. But now she is 14 months it's just the right time to be using them in my opinion, she's walking, she understands you need to keep ...  Read the complete review

We wanted to get our little lad to swim as soon as we could. Both me and his mum didn't learn to swim until we were adults and I can clearly remember 'swimming lessons' at school, whereby all my classmates were off swimming from one end of the pool to the other and I was clinging onto the sides at the shallow end, too afraid to let go of the edge of the pool. We didn't want our little lad to be like that so we introduced him to swimming from about the age of five years old. He was eager to get into the water straight away but we needed to make sure he was safe and so invested in some quality armbands for the purpose - the ones we chose were BEMA ...  Read the complete review