Children need the physical activity, but not the stress of over-competitiveness that can be prevalent in some youth leagues. Kids need to be allowed to be...kids, not Mom & Dad's little multimillionaire athelete in training. Some children have too much structured activities and it's like they're working full time jobs. For many it's not a healthy life style and they burn out/stress out. There's enough of that waiting for them in their adolescent and adult future years. A variety of unstructured creative play and activities is more desireable for the pre-teen age group, imo.
I learned at an early age not to complain of boredom within my Father's hearing...he'd hand me shovel and tell me to dig a ditch or something.Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Ain't that the truth. My first taste of freedom was riding my bike (the first car came much later) anywhere and everywhere within a 10 mile radius of the house. From the fishing/swimming hole to the ice cream stand to a friends house in the next town. I rode that bike daily and it did me a lot of good.Heh, mine ride a bike to school every day in all types of weather. Half an hour there, half an hour back. That's stamina taken care of.
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