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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If kids still rode bikes, played outside, read books, took hikes, played flashlight tag and did all the stuff I did in the summer in the 80s, I’d be ALLL about not scheduling anything for them. Unfortunately, if I don’t schedule camps, trips, structured activities, and athletics, the entire summer would be screens and no exercise. [/quote]

I was born in '76, and went to camp for eight weeks every single summer from the time I was four years old, until I was 14 and old enough to work. I rode my bike after camp, read books at night and on weekends, there was nowhere to hike and flashlights weren't for playing with (I had a strict home). When I was 5-8 I went to a reading club at the library once week in the evenings. Sometimes after dinner I'd go to the park a couple of blocks from our house and hit a tennis ball against the concrete wall there. Not everyone ran around drinking out of hoses not coming home until the street lights went on in the 80's. [/quote]

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