Kid Athletes vs. Kid Artists

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Forcing Music Lessons on Your Kids

Is it better to raise an artist or a kid who rides the bench in every sport he or she plays? Parents, you likely know the answer already.

In another episode of hit parenting comedy series Dads In Parks, Jamie Kaler and Bryan Erwin discuss the relative merits of spending time practicing music versus spending time playing sports. How cool is the guy who walks up to the piano or picks up a guitar and starts playing? Maybe Rudy just wasn’t meant to play football after all…

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Jamie Kaler

An accomplished actor, comic, host, voice-over artist, and radio personality, Jamie Kaler is best known for his starring role as “Mike” on the hit TBS show, My Boys. His prolific acting career includes appearances on Friends, Will and Grace, How I Met Your Mother, Parenthood, and King of Queens, as well as numerous films and over 150 commercials. He is currently the host of America: Facts vs. Fiction on the American Heroes Channel, which is entering it’s third season, and has his own radio show on SiriusXM named Kaler. As a voice-over artist he is the voice of the "Bloopers Host” on the cult classic Robot Chicken and has been the national spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Lines.

Originally from New Hampshire, Jamie graduated from Boston University on an NROTC scholarship and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy before beginning his career as a performer. As a comedian he was one of the new faces at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal and has appeared on Chelsea Lately, The Late Late Show, Live at Gotham, Mock-pocalypse, and World’s Dumbest.

When not working, he is obeying every command of his wife, Kate, and two daughters, Hannah and Claire.

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