Surprised to hear that coming from you, I have been taking my two little boys for seven straight years now. I feel very safe on the beach up until 11 pm, later if I'm with my group of friends who meet us. the day time 0 problems, I've started to let them wander a little distance on their own. We stay at Idle awhile beach, they are allowed to go down to Margaritaville and up the other way to about where the pattie lady is, it become to adult any farther for them. Accompong you usually just preach common sense will get a tourist far.
of course we are from Baltimore MD, and our town ain't no picnic.