The Mom Stop: No Need For Play Dates

Some would say that children today are plagued by helicopter parents who over-schedule their offspring with soccer practice and piano lessons, art classes and tutoring, and pre-scheduled play dates.The carefree, spend-the-summers-outside-and-drink-from-the-water-hose childhoods that many of us experienced in the 1970s and 1980s are gone, they say. And what’s left are children who are over-scheduled, over-stimulated, hooked on iPads, iPhones or other screens, leaving them ill-prepared [...]

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