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Putting School Year Activities Into Perspective

Asha Dornfest | Posted 05.28.2013 | Parents
Read More: After School Activities, School-Age Children, Chaperone, Volunteering, School Year, Time Management, Stress Managemetn, Family Schedule, Stress-Less Parenting, Work-Life Balance, Stress Less, Parenting Advice, Parents-Moms, Parents News
Asha Dornfest

There are serious logistics involved when your children are in school. What with the lunches and the clothes and the papers and the pickups and the drop-offs and the homework and the social and extracurricular activities and the vacation schedules (not to mention the volunteering)...

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It's Time to Put Youth Sports Back in the Game

Anita L. DeFrantz | Posted 02.05.2013 | Sports
Read More: Sports, Academic Achievement, After School Programs, High School Sports, Youth Sports, After School Activities, Youth Obesity, Impact Sports, Impact, Sports News
Anita L. DeFrantz

Last month's election was monumental for young people in California. Voters approved the first statewide tax increase since 2004, dodging $6 billion in cuts that would have crippled our public schools and universities.

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Why I Never Let My Kids Quit... Anything

Grown And Flown | Posted 01.20.2013 | Parents
Read More: Raising Children, Kids Sports, Parenting Advice, After School Activities, Sports, Quitting, Saying No, Parents-Moms, Parents News
Grown And Flown

Deciding when to let your child quit something, be it Gymboree, Little League or SAT prep, is a question that never goes away.

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Free-Range Extracurricular Activity: Pay Me to Ignore Your Kids

Lenore Skenazy | Posted 11.10.2012 | Parents
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Lenore Skenazy

"I Won't Supervise Your Kids" ™ is different from soccer and ballet because the kids have to figure out what to do with themselves.

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Why I May 'Push' My Kid

Denise Albert | Posted 09.12.2012 | Parents
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Denise Albert

Do you push your kids? Do you let them quit? Do you encourage them to continue activities they don't particularly like? Is that even pushing them, or is it building character?

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