Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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.

So that was a highlight of the lesson was pretending you were lost at sea and then peeing in the drain.

It was money well spent, I have to say.

I wanted the kids to learn to swim early for safety, of course, but also because I believe that swimming is one of the great primal human pleasures.

Chat GPT is never going to take swimming away from us.

Swimming is cool because it connects us to our evolutionary past and has all kinds of therapeutic benefits for the body and for the mind.

And it's just also the most fun.

Cannonballs and splashing, what could be better?

Our whole family actually...

recently, well, we all jumped into a very freezing cold river because we were hiking with some friends in the Scottish Highlands.

And there they call it wild swimming.

And if you hike with my husband, by the way, and there is water, no matter how cold, he is going to jump into it.