https://welcome-to-the-woods.com/the-dangers-of-overscheduled-kids/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 02:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://welcome-to-the-woods.com/the-dangers-of-overscheduled-kids/#comment-292 Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:19:34 +0000 https://www.welcome-to-the-woods.com/?p=1839#comment-292 Great points, Melissa, thank you for taking the time to share. I’d like to add a related, but peripheral topic. Above all, I truly believe kids need to learn stress management more than time management skills. Being in a lot of activities is great, until you suffer meltdowns or health crises like you mentioned in the post… Learning to cope and decompress is what comes from downtime and family interactions. Your kids will learn to manage stress from you… if they’re never around you then where will they learn it? Time management is an abstract concept thrown out right and left, but in reality, what most of us are trying to speak to is how well we balance our stress. Oftentimes, we forget that “fun” activities like sports, theatre, art, music, etc. do add stress. Stress is stress, and relaxation, rest, and downtime are crucial to development as well as longterm health.

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