Overscheduled Kids

Overscheduled Kids Time required for most of the matter. Featured in Newsweek, an article entitled? Busy around the clock. Articles with titles such as? Whatever happened to play? ? Pushing kids too hard? e? You are too plan your children? evident in the press and on the Inteet. Books with titles such as "Hyper-Parenting: Are your injuries from your child too hard? are based on bookshelves.Child development specialist David Elkind writes:? Parents are under pressure as never before overschedule for their children and are organized in sports and other activities that are age inappropriate. Most agree the practice today? S status symbol among families. In short, a superkid is a child under pressure from parents and society in general to do too much too soon. E? Saturday phenomenon in our society in a spiral of trend? no end in sight. It 'sa shocking thought.Writing in the magazine Child Care Information Exchange, Johann Christoph Aold says:? The pressure to excel is undermining childhood as never before. He asks: Why are we so eager to mold [children] in adults of success, instead of building their genuineness and carefree innocence? We have the best intentions, of course. We want our children to be happy, we put the happiness with success. And we believe strongly that the success achieved? T come unless we give our children a good start? a jump on the competition because were.But at what price is all this? Success? Comments? When children do not? T lea to play like children, are not? T to find out its value as an adult. And, oh, that dark, deadening existence daily. Think about the following questions, in fact, every thought for a minute: If the children as adults living begin during childhood, there is nothing to look forward to? * What? S, to ensure that they won? T be bued by the drive and first of all that pressure? ve also puberty? * If we? ve led to lose the magic of childhood, as it will always have the magic needed to cope with the trials and tribulations of adult life? * What will happen to the children's adult nature call if I remember the joy of simple things? If you need to play, that life is worth living? * What a joy to our children as if struggling for adults? success? to live? s sole purpose? Childhood is not a dress rehearsal for adults! There is another unique and very special phase of life. And we? Re essentially wiping the existence in an effort to ensure that the future of our children. But when we decided that life was a long race? When exactly, the life of a contest? In children and adolescents are not inteally motivated to succeed, the only motivation is derived from the value that we are to succeed. And they do not want us. As a result, stress is often an important factor in the life of a superkid. Of course, in every situation of life are a little 'stress. But if there is more than one person is capable, is unhealthy. Studies have shown that the brains of preschool children is greatly stressed as the brains of adults underlines the high amount of adrenaline and cortisol, the chemicals used by the body? Anti-S or-flight response. Little children who don? T the vocabulary or understanding to express what they are? Re feeling is often described as a sort coping.But there? S-stress in addition to the children insist on the quickest road to success before understanding the concept. For one thing, children are not? T to find out their motives? and motivation is often more important to the success of talent. Children have never been pushed, the opportunity to discover who they are. And they never lea to be at ease with himself, when alone with time on their hands. After experiencing life? By the clock? ? and almost always surrounded by others? These children have never leaed the joy of solitude, with only himself to society. This means not only them? Even in practice it is not capable of self-reflection, but? Even in this case can not simply be.Not long time ago, in an effort to see that helps folly that adults of all work and no play, a saying began, the bumper stickers and on e - mail. Reads:? Nobody has ever said on his deathbed, I will? D more time in office. Regardless of whether the award has had the desired effect remains to be seen as adults, as determined as ever to spend their time with benefits. But someone had the right idea, and, of course, some people with the feeling. Not? T is time to do the same mood, as it is for children? Is there anyone who could say at the end of childhood? Want? D less time to play? Who, after all, wants to retu to life and regret that one and only way, to mention only a child? Rae Pica is a child? S physical activity specialist and author of active child: How to promote the physical, emotional and cognitive development through age appropriate activities (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Rae speaks to parent groups and education throughout North America. Visit and read more articles