Balanced Extracurriculars Finding The Sweet Spot Between Enrichment And Over Scheduling
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Balanced Extracurriculars: Finding the Sweet Spot Between Enrichment and Over-Scheduling
Finding balance between extracurricular activities and family time can be a challenge. Balanced Extracurriculars offers a thoughtful approach to managing your child’s after-school activities, ensuring they’re enriching without overloading their schedule. This book provides practical tips for identifying activities that align with your child’s interests and strengths, while also prioritizing downtime and family connection. You’ll learn how to assess the value of each activity and set healthy boundaries to prevent burnout for both parents and children. Balanced Extracurriculars also explores how to avoid the pressure to over-schedule and how to teach children the importance of balance in their lives. This book provides advice for maintaining a flexible schedule, promoting family engagement, and helping children learn time-management skills. With actionable strategies for prioritizing what truly matters, this book ensures that extracurriculars become a source of joy and growth, not stress and exhaustion.
Dumbing Us Down
Author: John Taylor Gatto
language: en
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Release Date: 2002-02-01
With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. This second edition describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto’s "guerrilla teaching." John Gatto has been a teacher for 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. His other titles include A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001) and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000).
Organized Activities As Contexts of Development
Author: Joseph L. Mahoney
language: en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date: 2005-03-23
School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time is perceived as inconsequential or even counterproductive to the health and well-being of young persons. Recently, however, there has been a growing recognition that--along with family, peers, and school--the organized activities in which some youth participate during these hours are important contexts of emotional, social, and civic development. They provide opportunities for young persons to learn and develop competencies that are largely neglected by schools. At the same time, communities and national governments are now channeling considerable resources into creating organized activities for young people's out-of-school time. This volume brings together a multidisciplinary, international group of experts to provide conceptual, empirical, and policy-relevant advances in research on children's and adolescents' participation in the developmental contexts represented by extracurricular activities, and after-school and community programs. Organized Activities as Contexts of Development provides a handbook-like coverage of research in this new emerging field. It considers a broad developmental time-span from middle childhood through early adulthood, providing information on how motivation, participation, and developmental experiences change as youth get older. The contents cover one of the most salient topics in child and adolescent research, education, and social policy, placing consistent emphasis on developmental aspects and implications of organized activity participation for young persons. Representing contributors from several fields of study--psychology, criminal justice, leisure science, sociology, human development, education, prevention, and public policy--the book is designed to appeal to students and scholars in all these areas. Additionally, the volume is written to be of interest to professionals who administer programs and develop policy on youth.