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 description of kids’ schedule in paragraph 2 shows —
Responses
A that today’s kids are not happy taking part in only one activity.that today’s kids are not happy taking part in only one activity.
B that kids cannot be good at many different kinds of activities.that kids cannot be good at many different kinds of activities.
C how parents are rushing to get themselves from one activity to another.how parents are rushing to get themselves from one activity to another.
D how some kids are being rushed from one activity to another.how some kids are being rushed from one activity to another.

Answer 1

D — the paragraph describes how some kids are being rushed from one activity to another (e.g., "rushed from school to basketball, and then from basketball to dance...").