Summer Tips: Beach Safety by Wendy T

Follow these important tips to keep your kids safe at the beach:

• Have children wear bright color bathing suits, rash guards and shirts so that you can see them easily. Have all you children wear the same color if possible. Make sure that their bathing suit is not the color or the pool or bay or ocean. Bright colors can save their life if they are drowning or being tossed in the waves. (stay away from light blue or teal in the pool, or Navy or black or dark colors in the ocean or bay)
• Discuss a meeting place or procedure if they get lost or separated.
  
• Have a whistle or specific signal that your children know they need to respond to.