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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really see kids these days having much different schedules then my friends and I had in the Midwest in the 80s.  Year round swim team from a young age, plus several other sports depending on the season or age, an instrument, etc.  [/quote]

I'm in the Midwest and that is what people do today. Competitive swim or hockey/baseball, plus another sport or two each season. Some do an instrument, but nobody calls out families for overdoing sports. Only if the kid is taking an instrument or doing academic enrichment is he "over scheduled." Meanwhile I'm side eying the elementary kid who can't make half his practices due to his "main sport", and when he shows up to games and practices he's a tired mess.[/quote]

DP, but I do find it interesting that this thread is in the sports forum, but the one study mentioned in the article is about everything kids do after school, including homework. It also found the effects strongest in high school, not younger. It feels like kind of the reverse of your situation (probably cultural in different regions), but I see a lot more overscheduling discourse here around the problems elementary schoolers in travel sports and not high schoolers with too much homework.

(I have neither a high schooler nor a kid in travel sports, so I'm not coming at this from either angle personally)[/quote]

Kids at every age need and should have free time, they deserve it . I understand wanting to keep high school aged teens out if trouble, and some business is good, but overscheduling is never good.[/quote]

I don't think I know a single competitive college bound high schooler who isn't overscheduled by those definitions.[/quote]

You don't know a college bound high schooler who can't scrape together several hours of hangout time with friends every week? Really?[/quote]

Even the overscheduled kids have several hours a week. Mine does. The people who are for more unstructured time are arguing for hours every day. [/quote]

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