floaties!!!

or you can always use the technique my dad used to teach me. this involved him taking me into water too deep for me to stand in but that he could stand in, tossing me out away from him, holding his arms out and yelling, "SWIM!" and then as i would get closer to him he would keep backing up so i had to keep swimming/thrashing/drowning myself. wow was that fun--but i sure did learn how to swim in a hurry.