By Jeff Heinrich, Canwest News ServiceA generation or two ago, summer meant freedom. Now, for many young children, it means keeping busy.
Today's kids are hyper-organized: day camps, overnight camps, summer tutorials, swimming lessons, tennis lessons, trips abroad — they do them all.
Call it a symptom of our overactive times. But is all this a curse or a blessing?
People who know children best — parents, teachers, day-care workers, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists — come at the question two ways.
...and they have to come back three days earlier than usual.
ReplyDeleteFamily life is definitley different for our children then it was for us! I wonder what this generation of youngsters will be like as adults. They are growing up in a fast pace and sometimes over scheduled life.
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