Floaties can build confidence in the water. Swim experts say they can hide a skill many kids never learn

HOUSTON (InvestigateTV) — A flotation device can give a child confidence in the water, but swim experts say it can also hide a dangerous gap in a skill most kids never learn: how to tell the difference between floating and sinking. They say without it, that same device can quietly set a child up for danger the moment it comes off.Jenny Bennett’s son, Jackson, was the sweetest, most loving little boy. She told us that in his short 18 months “I truly thought that he was going to change the world someday.”“I just never thought that we would lose him like we did,” she said.He often wore a flotation device, or “floatie,” while in the pool. That changed one summer night in 2016.“One evening, when we thought he was upstairs playing with his older sisters, he had actually wandered out our dog door and found our pool alone where he had jumped in and it was about five minutes that had gone by,” she recalled. “We realized that he wasn’t upstairs with his sisters. And my biggest fear was that he w