[Fly Like a Duck]

Congratulations to you and your wife on your academic success. But tell me did you or your wife excel in college athletics? If so congratulations. If not then explain to me how lifting weights in high school prepared you for college. What did weight training do for you that was so amazing that you think all kids should take it.

A previous poster was right about a lot of parents not understanding finance or other valuable life skills. I had to learn a lot on my own. And those are the things I try to teach my kids. I could care less if they can bench 350 lbs. or squat 500 lbs. But I do want them to understand how to balance a check book, know what APR means, what a mutual fund is, the importance of a retirement fund and college fund for their kids, ect.... And I can assure you without a doubt that none of those will be taught in weight training.

Did I? Yes. Feels weird saying that, but let's just say I had a pretty decent college football career (played all years, not just one or two and gave it up).

Did she? No. Regrets that decision everyday and didn't because she was so academic driven, didnt thhink she could balance it all (tennis)but realizes now that her 3.98 (or whatever it was) GPA has no more baring than that of somebody who graduated college with a 2.5. She's been in two different career fields and not once had somebody ask what her GPA was, and I've never had anybody ask.

My weightlifting class was also a good part of nutrition and physiology, just learning how the body moves and operates. We also had to earn the right to take it (couldn't have below a certain GPA, etc to take it, which I'm all in favor of). I was a multiple sport athlete in high school, and had it not been for in class weights (I took business management 1 and two, along photography, basic shop, etc that you speak of as well) I wouldn't have gotten that off season work needed to help make me better.

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