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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a ton of threads on here about how exhausted everyone is and how many activities their kids are doing.

If your kids are older and you were more of a relaxed/non-scheduled parent how are your kids doing?  Are they happier?  Doing better in school? Get into the colleges they want?  What does less scheduled mean for you? No activities for your kids? Only activities they want to do? [/quote]

Keep in mind that a lot of these threads are about PARENTS being exhausted.  But that does not mean that each of their individual kids is overscheduled.  If you have 3 kids and each does 1-2 activities, that's a lot for the parents who have to handle like 3-6 activities, but seems reasonable for an ES kid (particularly because they usually don't have much homework yet).  [/quote]

Totally this. Also, little kids who can't go places on their own or be left home alone tend to get stuck attending siblings' activities. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's definitely an item on their schedule that displaces other things.

I think some kids are overscheduled by their parents and it's not good for them. But some kids just have a lot of energy, good health, low sleep need, internal motivation for their activities, and naturally high executive functioning and intelligence so they can get their schoolwork and other stuff done very efficiently. The same schedule on paper would *feel* really different to different kids, depending.[/quote]

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