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Kids and Extracurriculars - When Do You Let Them Quit?

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Jul 3rd 2009 2:00PM

When kids are ready to quit, do you let them?. Photo: sxc.hu
Extracurricular activities are a child's way of trying out new things and figuring out what fits. Dance, at our house, is one activity that never changes -- the kids look forward to ...
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Slow Parenting - The New, Old Way of Doing Things

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Apr 10th 2009 2:00PM

Does life feel like it's flying by too fast? Do you find yourself constantly telling your kids to hurry, hurry, hurry? Has it been days since you just sat and talked to your partner or children? What you might need is "slow parenting." It's a new ...
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Extracurricular activities - How much is too much?

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Aug 26th 2008 10:00AM

My older daughter's soccer coach called last night. I groaned when he told me he'd set soccer practices for the same day of the week that my daughter has dance. Now, one evening a week, she'll go from one dance class to the other, then directly to ...
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Avoiding over-scheduling with older kids

by Linda Lee, Posted Feb 26th 2008 3:00PM

I wrote a blog entry here at ParentDish a while back that referenced my toddler's bedtime (7:30) and a reader mentioned in the comments that she was surprised to hear that we put him to bed so early. If I remember right, her point of view was that ...
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Force kids to do after-school activities?

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Jul 28th 2007 1:02PM

Most kids get involved in some kind of extracurricular activity, whether it be sports, drama, academic clubs or otherwise -- but should this involvement be mandatory? The UK's Institute for Public Policy Research thinks so, noting in a recent report ...
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Busy children are happy

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Aug 14th 2006 7:00AM

I've heard rumblings recently about "overscheduled kids" - children whose parents drag them frantically from soccer practise to ballet lessons to karate and then to bookclub on one Saturday afternoon. I've also heard the sighs and heard the eyeballs ...
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