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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]

:thumbup: I'm with you. I often wonder why parents are signing their kids up for so much but then there is always the excuse that they are bored or need to burn off energy. So let the kids be bored and figure out how to entertain themselves. Let them go out and play. I don't get it, most of these kids won't go to college on scholarship and almost certainly they will not become professional athletes so what's the point?[/quote]

Fact is, most kids are indoors in front of screens most of the time. Nobody is playing outside because they are playing video games. There comes a point in time whrn you cannot dictate what little tiny Larlo does with his time and it's better that Laro loves playing a sport more than he loves Call of Duty.

Here is a hint, playing a sport has absolutely nothing to do with scolarship or professional athletes. In addition to baseball, my son plays piano. Is there no point because he'll never attend juliard or play for the NSO at the Kennedy center? Are you really that dense? Or is it ignorance? [/quote]

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