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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not travel, but I can't believe the 6th school basketball team plays three games per week during the season. If you add practices, how does a 6th grader have the time or energy to do another activity (like music or math) and still get homework done? With all these activities, when do kids even have the time to get addicted to phones and video games?[/quote]

I don’t think you’re doing the math right.  There are 168 hours in a week.  Hopefully your child is getting 10 hours a  night so that leaves you with 98 hours.  If they spend 10 hours a day at school and aftercare (and hopefull they’re not) that leaves you with 48 hours (of course this doesn’t apply to summer, school breaks and random school holidays). Even if you did sports for 2 hours a day (and few kids are doing that much)  that leaves you with 35 free hours a week.

Another way to look at that is a very active team practices no more than 4 times a week with practices being 1.5 hours throw in 2 games at approximately an hour  you’re looking at total practice and game time at 8 hours of physical activity.  Or less than 10% of total waking time.

If you have an active family (hiking 5ks etc) maybe you don’t need that much to get your kids in good shape but a lot of people do. [/quote]

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