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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kids don’t enjoy playing sports, you wouldn’t understand. No one (well very few parents) is making them play - my girls adore their activities - makes them so happy. I would never deny them this joy so that we would have more time for hiking and museums (which we also do.) I’m not bashing your family for not doing sports - please stop accusing my family of being “overscheduled” when we are all happy and doing what we like. Different strokes. [/quote]

That's great for your family. I mentioned my kids' friends being overscheduled because they have no "free" time. For instance dd's best friend has activities every single weekday and mornings and afternoons on weekend days and on the rare opportunity she gets to sleep over she complains that she never gets to just draw or play a board game because she's always running to activities. And the parents complain about how exhausted they are and how gas prices are up and how far away the games are but they don't think about just scaling back a bit because "the kids will get into too much trouble."[/quote]

Maybe she really enjoys it all but likes the chill time when she has time to chill. Maybe your kids complain at school about not getting to do activities when their friends discuss what they do and you don't hear those complaints. Maybe your kids know not to ask to do certain things because they think you will say no but they really want to. Maybe she wants to drop something and is worried her parents will say no.

There are lots of possibilities. We would all be better off if we stopped judging each other and let people go about their lives.

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