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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] But they generally are. I've worked with K-12 kids for 25 years, working and middle class kids are idle much of the day. Harvard's Robert Putnam has researched and written extensively about this.[/quote]
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