Athena's Daughters

As a martial artist who sometimes has the privilege of teaching, and as the father of a little girl, I found this story very interesting.

I think a common stereotype of putting kids into martial arts training is to put boys in to either a.) learn how to defend themselves against bullies, or b.) curb any aggressive tendencies. I'm here to tell you that girls make up a huge percentage of the grade school kids in the classes I see. I always thought that was a good trend, now I know why. Girls need to defend themselves too, and not just from overzealous dates.