There's surely a balance. "Forced boredom" is just tantamount to excess unstructured time. Structure is good, but overscheduling your kids with predetermined ac

There's surely a balance. "Forced boredom" is just tantamount to excess unstructured time. Structure is good, but overscheduling your kids with predetermined activity can also exhaust them and maybe leave them resentful later as they don't get to decide what to do with their time. If every night is sports alternating with piano recital and then homework, their lives are on rails.