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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine are 7 and 10, it's a holiday, and I'm sitting here wondering how many more years it will be until I get a day off.    I'm just so exhausted.  I want to vegetate for a day, but we are always behind on chores.  I can't sit down for 3 seconds without momomomomomom.  When I grew up, we played outside all day with friends, and our parents did NOT provide entertainment for us 24-7.  That method only works when other people in the neighborhood are doing the same, but instead they are schlepping kids to constant activities, taking trips, etc every weekend. I'm so sick of having to organize formal playdates and clear my schedule so my kid can have a social life. Modern parenting is exhausting.[/quote]

I agree. My kids are younger but I see this in my friends with older kids. And I wonder - were kids less talented as a whole when they were allowed to play freely as kids and only put in structured intense sports later on? Do we really need to throw them in at such young ages?[/quote]

You don’t of course, but what will they be doing on weekend? I used to play with neighbor kids/cousins on weekends, but all other kids are in sports/activities/school functions/school friends, etc. Without sports, my kids would spend most weekends doing nothing. We have 3 so I guess they would at least have some company. In our case, my kids love sports and are quite athletic so I can’t imagine having them home and doing nothing.[/quote]

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