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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think that it's only about missing specific events, but what about free play/free time? Everything a kid/teen does now a days is always an organized event.[/quote]

Yes and we are seeing the issues played out in STEM. You need downtime, time to get bored and figure out how to entertain yourself without help, are all necessary for engineering and other STEM fields. Kids are natural tinkerers and they don’t have enough time to truly dabble.[/quote]
This isn’t a STEM issue. I grew up in the free play, go outside and entertain yourself era of the 80s and tinkering was never something I did and STEM was never a strength or an interest. [/quote]

Yeah I think it's only a certain kind of kid who tinkers with stuff in their free time. The kids I know how are like this aren't really interested in sports. Not everyone who ends up in STEM was a tinkerer in childhood.

On the topic of not having downtime or time to get bored and figure out how to entertain yourself... with certain sports you actually do engage in some level of this. I was a swimmer and spent a lot of time staring at the black line on the bottom of the pool. You have to pay attention to what you're doing, but at the same time a lot of it is repetitive and automatic. I remember having a lot of time to think while I swam. I would come up with all kinds of ideas and would entertain myself by translating every thought I had into the language I was learning at the time. So I was definitely getting some cognitive benefits in addition to the exercise.

I realize team sports taking place on land don't really offer this type of quiet time. But I would bet a similar thing happens for cross country runners or other sports where there's a lot of repetition or waiting around alone?[/quote]

Idk

Car rides
Between games
If you have 1 game you have tons of down time the rest of the day for 8am game

Also down time needs is not the same for every kid. My introvert needs tons of down time and my extroverted son doesn’t.[/quote]

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