2.271. Cruise Director Days

My partner likes to compare me to a cruise director. She should know, because she’s been there herself. In essence I am responsible for finding activities to keep my kids busy and happy on the days they don’t have school. I shouldn’t be. It shouldn’t really even be this way, but there is the way things should be and then there is the way things are.

I’m wholly responsible for how we got here. I spent years putting kids in every sport and club known to man to the point where it is still weird–even in Jr. High–when a kid is only playing one sport. Having their lives so completely scripted with activities has had the effect of leaving them seemingly unable to function for long stretches of time without being offered some activity. My three might be an extreme case, but I’m of the opinion that many suburban kids are struggling in this way. I’m definitely bothered by it.

 

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