Last year as many as 134 children strayed away from their parents on Volusia County beaches.

While all parents were eventually reunited with their children, that reunion may have taken as long as several hours.

As a result, lifeguards have come up with a program that could reunite parents and lost children faster using something as simple as a yellow wristband.

Debbie Leviten from Winter Park was sitting on the beach in New Smyrna Beach with her children.

"There are no words to describe as a parent when you lose your child for a second, even in a store, let alone a beach with cars going up and down. It would be terrifying," Leviten said.

Lifeguards said a child's communication skills are not the best. Everything looks the same to those young eyes, which makes it harder for the child to tell authorities where their parents are.

"In some of those cases it would take up to three to four hours to relocate the parent," said Capt. Aaron Jenkins with Volusia County Beach Safety and Ocean Rescue. "And this is just kind of a way to speed up that process."

Just this weekend, lifeguards launched out a program called RES-Q, which stands for Reuniting Everyone Safely and Quickly.

Lifeguards started handing out wristbands to parents with small children, like the Levitens.

Parents fill out all the vital information, their phone number, along with any other information to reunite child with parent.

"I feel a lot safer," Leviten said. "I feel at least there's somebody who can see her wristband or his wristband, and know there's a phone number to call and that we can get to them and they can get to us."

The goal is to eventually hand out the wristbands at toll booths as parents are driving onto the beach.

The program is strictly voluntary and parents can decide whether or not to take the bracelets.

"One hundred 34 missing children is just too many children going missing on the beach. And hopefully we can get that number down, maybe with this program," Jenkins said.

"I think they should pass them around, along with the toll booths because not everybody does drive on the beach," said Leviten.

Every lifeguard truck and tower has the wristbands, which are free to any parent.