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When children's schedules become adult achievements

I scheduled my 7-year-old for soccer, piano, and tutoring this week and she asked me when she gets to just play and I couldn't answer because there literally isn't time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent has confused productivity with childhood, forgetting that unstructured time is where children actually develop.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Children and time — how they experience it?”

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