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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holee crap. Where is the unstructured time?![/quote]

There isn't. Have you seen your neighborhood?  Where are the kids? Not playing, not biking, not running around in the woods, parks, getting dirty and creating new games. Learning how to navigate life, friendships, and more. You know, being kids!!!  They are in academic classes, religious classes, language classes, travel sports at age 8.  Swim lessons, piano lessons, private instrument lessons, private sports lessons etc....  Parents want to guide their kids like puppets into some bizarro perfect life they have in their mind. That leaves kids in organized activities or planned care for 10-12hrs a day?   And they wonder why kids have ADHD, anxiety, depression, learning disabilities, and can't handle being on their own until they are 13+ years old. College suicides have quadrupled in the last 10 years. But they know a 2nd language, can follow a cult, and get straight A's so they will be just fine.  :roll: [/quote]

huh. 
My kids each play a travel sport.  
They get home from school at 3.   Their practices are 6 to 7pm daily. 
That makes 3 hours of free time each afternoon.

I'd worry more about the 90% of their classmates that are in aftercare daily for 3 hours from 3 to 6pm. [/quote]

My kids are home at 250, but I'm not sure why you are so worried about kids in aftercare.  What exactly do you think goes on there? I'm guessing it's homework, snack and free play. Isn't that what happens at home minus the video games?[/quote]

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