Free time with family becomes, ironically, not free at all. Dinners are tough, if not impossible, to schedule. More than ever before, both parents (at least in the U.S.) need to work to make ends meet. Much of this is driven, of course, by the increasingly frenetic lives of parents. It seems there’s considerably less free time than in the old days. Many of our kids are, in fact, overscheduled. Isn’t that why it’s called vacation?”Īnd you know what? They might be right. How many times do we hear, with the patented and perfunctory eye-roll, “Hey, I work really hard all year in school, sports, music whatever-all the things you make me do, all the things I have to do-and summer is time to relax. Whereas it didn’t even occur to me to object, kids nowadays are starting to grumble. Kids now push for a loose, “free” summer, but if anything, we’re structuring them even more. Things have changed a lot since those days. One thing went without saying: I was going to participate in some sort of structured activity. When I did, in fact, get older, I was told I could be a camp counselor, or I could work. ‘But don’t worry,’ my mom told me, ‘when you get older, that’s when you’ll have choices.’ I could go to camp, or, well…I could go to camp. When I was a kid, there weren’t what you’d call choices when it came to summer. Grade School, Parenting Concerns, Teenagers, You & Your Family By Steven Schlozman, MD and Gene Beresin, Executive Director
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