Quote Originally Posted by mlededee
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.
Im not so sure that I would use this tecnique myself, but it is basically the same way that myself and two brothers were taught how to swim. Only difference is my dad would be standing up on the pier and would toss us in and yell, "Now Swim back, your not gonna drown". Well, we are all alive to talk about it. lol My kid's pretty much taught themselves how to swim while we would be somewhere fishing. I would just keep an eye on them while they were at the shallow end of the pond thrashing around until they were swimming on their own. Worked for them.