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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister has three older kids. They were not intense about activities (kids did whatever gymnastics, dance, sports classes they wanted after school in elementary school, but my sister and her husband work so each kid did 1-2 things of their choice and they coordinated carpools or did activities on weekends.) as the kids entered middle and high school, they were on athletic teams and academic extracurriculars at their private school.

My oldest niece is a freshman at a top tier college (working hard pre-med), middle sibling is among top of their class in eleventh grade, and youngest is in middle school. They’re well adjusted, kind and hard working kids. [/quote]

confused by this post. you describe heavily scheduled kids, but you are saying they weren't heavily scheduled? these are not examples of under scheduled children. [/quote]

Pp here. They never seemed over scheduled to me. They did local gymnastics, dance classes or little league as kids. In contrast, when I was a kid, my mom had us in private music lessons, private tennis lessons, and whatever group sports or dance lessons we wanted. Plus private tutoring if any one of us wasn’t pulling top grades in highest level classes. I consider that pretty intensive, and see a lot of it where I now live (NYC suburbs). Maybe it’s a relative basis, but I felt my sisters kids -where maybe the kids did activities 1-2 days a week including weekends- had a more relaxed activity schedule relative to how we grew up. So far they seem fine. I will say two of my three siblings went to ivies. The other two of us went to a top non Ivy that my oldest niece now coincidentally attends (she’s not a legacy there.) but admissions were different back then and I kind doubt the “intensive” activities would ultimately matter today. [/quote]

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