Tuesday, 06 June 2006 11:55
To try to answer this question that all of us face at some point, I went out to 500 coaches, extracurricular activity teachers, and seasoned parents to gain their insights for my parenting book about kids and activity overload, Sign Me Up!. What I learned transformed my thinking about how to react when my daughter Kyle declared that she had had it with her flute and my son Brooks said he was too bored to continue a lesson longer with karate after obtaining his brown belt.