How To Swim Through Life Without Doing Anything

 I think it's interesting that all children in America get swimming lessons. It's pretty much a universal thing to make your child do when their young. Why is swimming more of a necessity than say, CPR training, or healthy eating classes? I think our priorities in America are a bit skewed.

 Several children drown at an early age whether they know how to swim or not. It's one of those things that's a good asset for children to know, but if they never got lessons, they can just skip swimming altogether. It's not an important part of life. If you live near the beach it would be more of an incentive but still. CPR is great to know but children don't need to learn it that early since they aren't strong enough to really give compressions anyway.

I think that healthy eating classes would be more beneficial for this country than swimming lessons. If children were taught at an early age what to eat and what not to eat, as well as how the body is affected, ir would be more beneficial. I didn't learn about healthy eating until I was in maybe fifth grade or middle school and by then, many kids are obese or have diabetes. The eating habits of parents is a huge factor in the health of children because they buy the groceries and put the food on the table. Yet, if we started teaching the kids earlier, then maybe as they grow up, they will feed their children better. We've gotten to be a lazy society and want things easier and faster.

 This blog wasn't meant to be about any of the above, but about the fact that I thought it was really interesting that swimming lessons were a universal thing, like immunizations or something. Is that as interesting to anyone else? It just seems odd.