re: Mother receiving death threats over teaching baby to swim John Wayne style

That's exactly how I learned to swim around 8 years old. My older cousin Jimmy tossed me in the deep end and told me to either swim or sink.

I'm not sure what I did could be misconstrued as swimming, but I managed to make it to the edge of the pool, pull myself out and tried to attack him-----and got thrown back into the pool for a second helping.