DEEP DIVE: Are Our Kids Overscheduled?
Nowadays, it's completely possible to load our kids up on activities to the point of exhaustion—theirs and ours. Why do we do it, how is it really affecting our kids, and what questions should we be asking when adding a new activity to the lineup?
This "Deep Dive" series revisits a few of our past episodes on back-to-school challenges such as the morning rush, school projects which require lots of parental oversight, and how to help our kids navigate intensifying academic pressure.
So many of us spend hours chauffeuring our kids back and forth to their myriad activities. Why are kids so overloaded with activities these days, and can we get off of this ride? Here are some parenting strategies for navigating this issue.
Amy and Margaret discuss:
- Why kids are so overscheduled these days
- How overscheduling really affects kids, beyond the mom guilt-inducing headlines
- What questions to ask when assessing if our kids are overscheduled
Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode:
- Dr Shimi King: Overscheduling Your Kids Isn’t the Fast-Track to Success it Once Was
- Solution Health: Overbooked Kids: The Overscheduled Crisis
- Anna Nordberg for Slate: The Fine Art of Underscheduling
- Jill Barshay for Mind Shift: Overscheduling Kids’ Lives Causes Depression and Anxiety, Study Finds
- Carolina Caetano, et. al for Economics of Education Review: Are children spending too much time on enrichment activities?
What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables.
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