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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These kids are working harder than they ever will for the rest of their lives, unless they go to med school. Why put them through that? Do you go to work all day and then play a sport and then come home and do several more hours of work? It’s crazy. [/quote]

This. And seriously- do you want to teach your kid that working 12 hours a day (in school, after school etc) is what life is? I feel sorry for you and your kid. Get outside, talk a walk with no agenda. (i know "you choose a job you LOVE) and it doesn't feel like work when it's your passion"). [/quote]

The picture you paint is not reality. Not many kids view their time in sports and ECs as "work." It is fun and social. If you got to take time out from your job to play baseball and go to the gym or to play D&D or work in a greenhouse or plan a charity event with a group of friends, would you consider that "work," and would your time doing that feel like you were in a rat race? Would that time be better spend watching YouTube videos or cute cats on Instagram?

My kids spend 5 hours and 20 minutes in actual class time during the day, some of that is fun PE time. Being at school is also social; most kids want to be there. Add to those 5.3 hours 2-4 hours of homework for the the slower worker and 1-2 for the faster worker, and you see that neither is doing school work for 12 hours a day. Neither considers their sport and EC's, which they chose, to be "work," and both spend plenty of time goofing off with friends and playing games and watching YouTube; and they have breakfast, lunch, and dinner sitting down at the table with family or classmates. They really don't need 3 more hours of down time M-F instead of studying and being prepared.

Kids with nothing to do are as at risk of depression as kids who are over scheduled with things they don't want to be doing or can't handle. There is a wide range of healthy in-between.[/quote]

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