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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents are so involved with their kids nowadays, it’s insane. My mom had no idea who my friends were and frankly, didn’t care. She would get home from work and make dinner while smoking a cigarette and gossiping on the phone with my aunt. I played sports but didn’t do anything competitively until I was in middle school and then I had to pick one sport because we couldn’t afford more than that. The only books we had in the house were by Danielle Steel. My parents and I lived on different planets, and that was just fine. I went to college, I have a good job, and my parents and I have a good relationship. Now there’s all this pressure. People taking constant photos of their kids, scheduling their days and packing them full of classes.There’s also fear permeating everything. The kids can’t go outside by themselves, parents are calling teachers to check in on schoolwork, nobody can afford to make mistakes. No wonder these kids are so anxious. [/quote]

It’s a different world. In some ways, our kids have it better.  At the same time, I grieve for the fact that they won’t have as carefree a childhood. [/quote]

This is an exaggeration. My kids go to public school and they do a few classes (our sons play tennis 2x a week and do TKD another day, daughters do dance and tumbling 2x a week). Otherwise, they play in the neighbored with friends. It’s the kind of place where we tell them to come back at dark and know they will be safe. There are lots of kids their ages who live in the neighborhood and we know their parents. We text back and forth to keep track of who is where.

Wrt your post, we do keep track of school work, we do family photos with a prof photographer once a year, and I take photos on our vacations. But it’s still a normal, carefree childhood.[/quote]

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