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Are Our Kids Overscheduled?
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So many of us spend hours chauffeuring our kids back and forth to their myriad activities. Why are kids so overloaded with activities these days, and can we get off of this ride? Here are some parenting strategies for navigating this issue.
Amy and Margaret discuss:
- Why kids are so overscheduled these days
- How overscheduling really affects kids, beyond the mom guilt-inducing headlines
- What questions to ask when assessing if our kids are overscheduled
Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode:
- Dr Shimi King: Overscheduling Your Kids Isn’t the Fast-Track to Success it Once Was
- Solution Health: Overbooked Kids: The Overscheduled Crisis
- Anna Nordberg for Slate: The Fine Art of Underscheduling
- Jill Barshay for Mind Shift: Overscheduling Kids’ Lives Causes Depression and Anxiety, Study Finds
- Carolina Caetano, et. al for Economics of Education Review: Are children spending too much time on enrichment activities?
What Fresh Hell Podcast is going on tour across the Northeast US this fall! Join us for a live version of the podcast and bring all your mom friends. We can’t wait to go back on the road! https://bit.ly/whatfreshhelltour
We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website:
https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/
mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, kid behavior, child behavior, kids activities, kids sports, kids enrichment, kids extracurriculars, kids schedules
795 episodes
Are Our Kids Overscheduled?
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Manage episode 439329324 series 3367092
So many of us spend hours chauffeuring our kids back and forth to their myriad activities. Why are kids so overloaded with activities these days, and can we get off of this ride? Here are some parenting strategies for navigating this issue.
Amy and Margaret discuss:
- Why kids are so overscheduled these days
- How overscheduling really affects kids, beyond the mom guilt-inducing headlines
- What questions to ask when assessing if our kids are overscheduled
Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode:
- Dr Shimi King: Overscheduling Your Kids Isn’t the Fast-Track to Success it Once Was
- Solution Health: Overbooked Kids: The Overscheduled Crisis
- Anna Nordberg for Slate: The Fine Art of Underscheduling
- Jill Barshay for Mind Shift: Overscheduling Kids’ Lives Causes Depression and Anxiety, Study Finds
- Carolina Caetano, et. al for Economics of Education Review: Are children spending too much time on enrichment activities?
What Fresh Hell Podcast is going on tour across the Northeast US this fall! Join us for a live version of the podcast and bring all your mom friends. We can’t wait to go back on the road! https://bit.ly/whatfreshhelltour
We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website:
https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/
mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, kid behavior, child behavior, kids activities, kids sports, kids enrichment, kids extracurriculars, kids schedules
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