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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear you OP.  I also hate it.  I look at weekends as rare quality family time, and sitting on the sidelines of a practice isn't it.  But I have an extreme sport lover, so we do it.  I temper it though, two activities a year right now (early elem).  We may change it up when he gets older.  It's important to me that some weekends are FREE for us.

[b]I don't get why our culture is so programmed to build the individual and there are so few all-family experiences.  It's kind of sad.  I had kids to be with them, not drive them around everywhere so they can have more hobbies and be a more accomplished adult.  
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Sadly, I don't think it does make them a more accomplished adult.  I think kids are so much better off with family time and playing outside with friends learning social dynamics and behavior.  Instead we carpool them around to sports and birthdays that are all scheduled events to the minute and the kids are herded like cattle.  No self-thought.  Kids are entering college intellectually intelligent and completely naive at the same time.  Add phones to the mix later and they barely have conversations.  It is very sad.  [/quote]

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