Julia Louis-Dreyfus

And I remember wondering if the strokes, going back and forth, you know, doing laps, if the strokes were soothing to the baby inside of me.

And I have a feeling that they were because now, 30 years later, that baby, he's a surfer, and he's in the ocean almost every single day, which is so funny.

So when the boys were little, I really wanted them to learn how to swim.

And they learned how to swim at a very young age.

They had a teacher who was very strict.

She was really kind of mean sometimes.

But she was a great swim teacher because she was so tough.

And there was no negotiation, no nothing.

She didn't baby them.

And I was all down for that because I lived in fear of the kids not knowing how to swim and being near a pool at a friend's house or whatever.

So that's why I endured her toughness.

And what the kids loved about taking swimming lessons with her was the first thing she taught them in the pool was what to do if you got in trouble.

And so you would turn over, lie on your back, put your chin up.

Then you would call, help, help.

And then you would find your way to the edge of the pool and try to hold on to the pool.

So they would play this sort of SOS game all the time.

And the boys loved it.

And the other thing that they loved was...

That she didn't want kids going into her house.

So if they had to go pee-pee, they were allowed to pee in the drain that was right next to the pool.