Extracurricular Activities May Be Too Much of a Good Thing
“When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.” Carl Honore, best-selling author and journalist. I spent my youth in a modest New Jersey suburb in the 1980s, and if perspective and the passage of time have taught me anything, a great deal has changed since then. At 49 years old, when I compare my formative years to those of children today, I feel like a relic, a dinosaur, an old-timer. Here are a few examples of why. Our phones were hanging on kitchen walls, not buried in our pockets, with a curly cord that cleverly uncoiled, though easily tangled, so you could walk around the house to talk. Cable television was becoming a thing, and to change the channel, you had to…
