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involving people who deeply care about each other and in fact will put each other's

needs over their own.

It doesn't work applied apply to a whole society

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I feel like we've most have been talking about the slightly younger set of kids, but this next article from

Slate, the fine art of under-scheduling, I think, brings us into the slightly older kids and up into the teenage realm and it's

basically tackling the problem of kids and then by extension the entire families being completely over-scheduled, no free time, like exhausted,

running around activities planned all the time and so this article like definitely the most

interesting parts of it get into the structural reasons why kids and

families have found themselves in this situation. I guess I would argue,

I mean what do people think? Maybe the initial trigger is the

first moveer or, I don't know, is that the first mover or,

I don't, maybe it is the safety thing.

Maybe it's like, well, if we need kids to be safe, then they should be in activities.

It's a mix, obviously. It's not just one thing, but I thought the argument about I need to give my kids something to do.

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