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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The obsession with maintaining a full schedule of organized activities seems weird and stressful.[/quote]

The average middle class teen is idle on their butt all day long playing video games, on their phone or streaming Netflix.

The always busy overachiever striver is perhaps <2.5% of all teens.

I’d rather have my kids maintain full schedules than be terminally unmotivated bumps on a log.[/quote]

See this is what I hate. A kid/teen not in a boat load of activities doesn't have to be a bump on a log or a trouble maker. How rude and offensive.[/quote]

Yep. This PP is laughably out of touch. I live and work in the suburbs of a small city far outside of the DMV. I have coached high school and college sports and there are plenty of kids who don’t have the money for all the best camps or even the best equipment yet spend a lot of time working hard to be good at their sport (and many have gone on to play at higher levels. I myself was a D1 athlete who was solidly middle class; I would venture to say a large portion of high level athletes are - just look at the hometowns of many of the NFL draftees). There are also a lot of kids who aren’t rich or upper class who are talented singers, artists, etc. I almost have to think PP is a troll. Just because you don’t have a lot of money doesn’t mean you can’t have talent, ambition, or a great work ethic. [/quote]

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