"gloria.p" > wrote in message
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> On 10/27/2011 2:11 PM, merryb wrote:
>> When I was a kid, we always had dinner as a family, and I still think
>> it's important- my dad insisted on dinner at 6:30! I recently heard
>> that most families do not eat dinner together, and I find that rather
>> sad. I do understand that with conflicting schedules that is not an
>> option, but if it's possible, it's a good time to catch up on the day.
>> How about you- is it important to you to dine as a family?
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> Most families with kids are so over-scheduled, that sports, lessons,
> religious ed, practices and games cut into dinner times. Often these
> people exist on drive-through fast food not because they can't cook but
> because they are caught up between delivering 2-3 kids to scheduled
> activities.
>
> gloria p


I don't get all this scheduled activity stuff. I'm not a parent but I was a
kid. I would have hated "scheduled" activities. My activities involved
playing outside with other kids in the neighborhood until it got dark. We
made our own fun. We rode bikes. We skated. We played games like tag or
hide and seek or swing the statue. Why on earth do kids have to have all
these schedules? Can't kids just be kids anymore?

Jill