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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all part of the micromanaging childhood ethos that reigns in this area among too many parents.  Everything has to be orchestrated and "professionalized" for children and things are valued only for what they may get you later on, rather than for their own sake.  And parents take everything so #$%^ seriously, as if the whole world will come crashing down if they let their kids just be kids and play for the enjoyment of the game.

It starts early with parents signing up their kids for everything under the sun.  Even among our group of friends, whom I'd consider largely "normal", LOL, I see their kids' weekends often scheduled with activity after activity and class after class.  As if, God forbid, it's somehow bad for kids to just be playing quietly by themselves or with their parent/s.

It's not that we don't sign our son up for classes but, because we both work, and he only just turned 5, we limit classes to one per season/semester.  Some of the kids we know have been doing sports since they were 3.  It just seems crazy to me as a dad.

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It does seem crazy.  I'm one from the generation of spending days on end just going outside and playing with friends.  All that said, having descended into the "craziness" of very busy kids, I do think my kids are getting a much broader extra-curricular education than I ever did, and have started to develop a certain expertise in things like music and certain sports that I wish I had.[/quote]

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