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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the folks that highly value unstructured kid-led playtime (I think it's important too!), but have been disappointed that kids are not outside roaming the neighborhood for your kid to play with, what have you done from there?  Just given up and your unscheduled kid plays alone every day?  Have you texted parents of classmates and their friends and asked them for a playdate?  (Do your kids have friends?)  Invite them over -- I don't believe you that no one has time for some playdates.  My kids do lots of activities and so do most of their friends (we like it this way, thanks) and we arrange playdates all the time.  My kids have several a week.  Surely you have the bandwidth to do this since you are not dealing with EC activities.  You could even also sign them up for a few afternoons of school aftercare (I'm not even kidding) -- it's typically just unstructured playtime.   [/quote]

Aftercare at school is not the same thing at all. School has rules and guidance for what kids do and how. At our school, the paras yell at kids for climbing up the slide instead of sliding down. Very different from 2 or 3 kids tooling around outside unsupervised and having to think, argue, cooperate, decide, keep track of time, etc.[/quote]

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