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The Overscheduled Child: Giving children downtime.
- Betsy Brown Braun
- Eli Davidson
- Lisa Belkin
Nov. 5, 2009 - 18 weeks ago
Our Parents Ask experts Lisa Belkin, Betsy Brown Braun and Eli Davidson weighed in on the perils facing a generation of overscheduled kids and their parents. Our readers joined in and raised a new question: "What do you do when your child wants to bow out of an activity?" Do you remind them of the commitment they've made (and that maybe your parents let you quit and you regret it!) or do you let them drop out?
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