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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Basically the kids these days don’t know how to be bored. They’re either in their structured activities or on screens. [/quote]

Actually it’s the other way around screens changed childhood if they are not in an activity they are on screens even if you are one of the families that limits screen time all of the families around you don’t.  Therefore, you have three  choices one  let your kid be on screens all day, 2 be the parent that takes one for the whole neighborhood and gets the kids together for activities that you run or three drop your kid off at an activity for an hour or two (I guess there is a forth option to allow your kid the wander around the house for hours). I’ve done option 2&3 and I can tell you 3 is a hell of a lot easier. [/quote]

What do your kids outside of structure activities and screens? [/quote]

When they were little we did a lot - zoo, fishing, golf, canoeing, yard work, crafts minor repairs to the house. As they got older thet could run around with friends but it was frustrating because they would eventually go to a friend’s house and be back on screens.  If you are trying to have a kid who has an experience with real life you have to be an intentional parent. [/quote]

When i was a kids everything wasn’t adult led. We played with the kids on the street whether we liked them or not because it was better than being alone. [/quote]

That’s great but the reality is that now we live in an era of highly addictive screens.  That’s something our parents didn’t have to deal with.  We aren’t going back in time so unfortunately we have to deal with the era we are living in.[/quote]

That's true things are differebt, but I don't think that means that parents should just throw in the towel. I don't know the solution is exactly, but something needs to change.[/quote]

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