Yesterday, we went to Belmar at low tide. Tim isn't interested in the water, preferring toys and the sand. But Kenny went into the water up to his neck and when a wave came in, he jumped over it, usually.

A couple of waves went over his head but, at low tide, everything is pretty gentle: the waves themselves aren't very strong and in between the waves is very calm allowing space and time to catch one's breath.

I managed to take Tim out once into waist deep (for him) water and I think that he liked it but he was more interested in the things on shore, especially because one kid had a huge beach pail full of tiny crabs! Can't compete with the attraction of living animals.