Question
Parents need to look at their kids’ schedules and ask themselves if their kids need to do less. That’s not to say that kids should do fewer chores or spend less time playing. Those things are fine. They don’t cause nearly as many problems as the after-school activities kids are involved in.
Kids are interested in lots of things, but that doesn’t mean that they need to be involved in all of them. A kid who is being rushed from school to basketball, and then from basketball to dance, and from dance to a cooking class is a kid who is being given more information than he or she can possibly learn.
It is also likely that a kid who is doing all of those things isn’t getting a lot of free time. That is something every kid needs. Kids also need sleep. They need a lot of it. Kids between the ages of 7 and 12 need 10–11 hours a sleep each night. They can’t get that if they are so busy that they don’t sit down to dinner until 9 o’clock and still have homework to do after that.
Kids who always have somewhere to be, don’t get time alone or with friends, and aren’t sleeping are unhappy kids. Instead of having kids do everything, parents should ask their kids to focus on the one thing that they are really interested in.
Question
The author’s most important message in the passage is that kids today
Responses
A should only do their extra activities at schoolshould only do their extra activities at school
B are over-scheduled and need to cut backare over-scheduled and need to cut back
C do not have any time for their friendsdo not have any time for their friends
D are unhappy because they play too many sportsare unhappy because they play too many sports
Kids are interested in lots of things, but that doesn’t mean that they need to be involved in all of them. A kid who is being rushed from school to basketball, and then from basketball to dance, and from dance to a cooking class is a kid who is being given more information than he or she can possibly learn.
It is also likely that a kid who is doing all of those things isn’t getting a lot of free time. That is something every kid needs. Kids also need sleep. They need a lot of it. Kids between the ages of 7 and 12 need 10–11 hours a sleep each night. They can’t get that if they are so busy that they don’t sit down to dinner until 9 o’clock and still have homework to do after that.
Kids who always have somewhere to be, don’t get time alone or with friends, and aren’t sleeping are unhappy kids. Instead of having kids do everything, parents should ask their kids to focus on the one thing that they are really interested in.
Question
The author’s most important message in the passage is that kids today
Responses
A should only do their extra activities at schoolshould only do their extra activities at school
B are over-scheduled and need to cut backare over-scheduled and need to cut back
C do not have any time for their friendsdo not have any time for their friends
D are unhappy because they play too many sportsare unhappy because they play too many sports
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B are over-scheduled and need to cut back