After school activities-how much is too much?

When I was growing up, I came home from school, then spent the next few hours away from running around, playing and just a kid. After lunch I would settle for homework and then talk on the phone and finally make the night. I made a couple of afternoon events I attended, but I'm still a lot of time to hang out with friends and run nearby.

My oldest daughter had not been allowed to run unattended, as I was, but it participates in many after school play dates in our home or the home of her classmates, she also had a lot of time to play with friends, homework and even participate in multiple after programmes school.

What I see today are children, who are so overscheduled, they eat dinner at 8: 00 pm and sitting down to do your homework after 10: 00 at night.

I'm a very busy schedule here in the city of assignment of the clergy.Part of his responsibility meets families of 12-year-olds as prepare for the coming year.I always sad when parents tell me that only "free time their child has, on Sunday night at 7: 00 veceraKaždyj day after school assortment of music lessons, art lessons, dance lessons, sports, and many other things. Kindly if they can reschedule your child a lesson for one-time clergy meeting often met with great resistance. It makes me wonder how much is too much?

I really agree that busy child is less likely to get into trouble, but I also believe, when the child is not free hour in any given week overscheduled child.

As adults we often make choices about how to spend our time.We visit the other party or premiere plays? We attend dinner or our children sports banquet?We are the night with the girls or take a night class topics of interest for us?We constantly make a choice, where we spend and invest our time training our children how to make a choice is an important lesson we can teach their parents education of our children, we really cannot do all of this is also an important lesson.

I know I like an hour here and there to relax with a good book, or play the game of dominoes on your computer or even dig up my scrapbooking supplies to create multiple pages. children too have down time; just chilling with friends or talking on the phone as parents it is up to us to ask how much is too much? "