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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's something I'm hearing over and over in this thread.

Un scheduled kids end up alone at home or wondering the neighborhood with no one to play; their parents have complained on here that they are not getting unstructured friend time -- which was the very reason they eschewed structured activities in the first place.

Meanwhile, more scheduled kids, for example those on a travel sports team, are on the same schedule as their teammates, whom they have built friendships with around shared interests and with whom they naturally end up having unstructured time to play with them all throughout the week.  Hangouts before a carpool to practice, run off and play after a game, playdates on a day they don't have practice...

Oh the irony![/quote]

Yep, totally true. And there are lots of jokes about the feral siblings who run wild at baseball parks for example playing in the dirt the whole weekend tournament. But to people not in the know they are busy, and dragged to a sibling’s activity, and their life is devoid of play time.[/quote]

The "behold the feral baseball sibling" videos are funny!  Last spring my older DD's house softball games were played on a field by a really nice bike bath.  The younger siblings started bringing their bikes and going off for bike rides together.  It just sort of happened.  My younger DD loved it, and also really clicked and made friends with another girl.  [/quote]

For my oldest’s baseball games the younger kids brought scooters, soccer balls, and played at the playgrounds a lot of the time. There are always playgrounds at these baseball fields. My 2 younger kids brought paper, markers, bracelet making kits and would make the other kids bracelets in team colors. It’s funny that strangers are worried that kids don’t play enough or don’t know how to be bored. If they only knew what the people they are faux concerned about were really doing.[/quote]

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