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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a poor immigrant family. We now have a seven figure HHI. I just try to expose my children to a lot of things. They know how to swim because I consider it a life skill that my parents did not teach to me.

If you went to HYP, I find it hard to believe that you don't know what an upper middle class lifestyle is. We want our kids to know the basics - how to play tennis, golf, ski, swim, etc. we vacation often. We eat out.

We are not and never will be country club people and that is fine. We have friends from all different backgrounds.[/quote]

I went to HYP and don't know how to play tennis, golf, or ski and I swim poorly.  Yikes!  Better return my three Ivy League decrees![/quote]

Didn't you have to pass a swimming test before you graduated?  It was required at Princeton when I went and I understood at Harvard and Yale too.  Undergraduate lore was that the swimming test was instituted after the Titanic sunk and some graduates were lost because they didn't know how to swim.  Always unclear how much knowing how to swim would have helped in the frigid waters.[/quote]

It wouldn't have helped at all. Most people drown in cold water in [b]seconds[/b] due to cold shock.

http://www.coldwatersafety.org/WhatIsCold.html[/quote]

What?? this cannot be true. Is it? 
signed, 
lower middle class person [/quote]

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