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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents will complain about their kids free time, if they have free time all they'll do is stare at a screen. But, excessive screen time is still an option with their kid. It should be pretty simple to fix this. Kids need to figure out what to do without screens and organized activities. [/quote]

Well, back in my day kids were drinking, smoking and having sex. Should we go back to that?[/quote]

No of course not, but not all kids back in the day or now will do that either.[/quote]

What's wrong with the activities? You'd prefer they do anything but that without saying why?[/quote]

Nothing wrong with organized activities if kids really want them. But, kids are overscheduled and do need to learn what to do without so many activities and screens.[/quote]

Kids are over scheduled? How so? And why do they need to learn to do without a schedule? Is your life unscheduled? Also what age are you talking about 6 or 16?[/quote]

Kids are busier than ever before with activities and add on hw on top of that. Never mind the fact that alot of parents don't seem to value kids having free time anymore. Yes, it is important for kids to have free time and manage free time without always having something on a schedule .[/quote]

Why? What is so very important about this?[/quote]

What's not important about kids needing free time and learning how to manage it and boredom?[/quote]

I can't really think of much. No kids is booked solid 7 days a week. There is always down time. I had a lot of down time as a kid and was frequently bored. Mostly because my mom was too lazy to drive me anywhere or sign me up for things that were "inconvenient" for her. I don't think I'm better off for it. [/quote]

My parents never signed me up for anything. We never went anywhere. I had a loving stable home and we went to church. I didn’t even know I was missing out on anything. I knew kids who went to Spain for spring break and went to Hilton Head in the summer. There was a girl at my school who was a really good tennis player. She was smart, pretty, nice and rich. Most kids were just average but I remember the rich tennis playing girl.

My kids do everything I never had the opportunity to do. I don’t feel bad this one bit.[/quote]

Yep, my husband and I grew up the same. So we make a point of exposing our kids to all sorts of activities, thinks we wished our parents did for us. All that "down time" is overrated. We watched a lot of TV, the way kids play video games or TikTok now. It was not time well spent.[/quote]

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