TAKING
TIME
by Rebecca Escott
Extension Home Economist
Who Wins When We Hurry?
The other day, a co-worker and
I were recalling our activities
growing up as children and teens.
I remembered the important deci
sion that my mom (thankfully) put
before me when I was a teen. She
said that she and dad would agree
to pay for one set of weekly music
lessons but if I wanted to take both
voice lessons and piano lessons
that I would have to pay for one of
them.
After a few weeks, I learned the
valuable lesson of prioritizing and
dropped piano lessons. That same
year I looked at my other activities
field hockey, winter sports
cheerleading, track, school musi
cals, Girl Scouts, 4-H, church
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choir (were there more?). After a
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This is a difficult task if the child
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Second, a child’s ability to
adapt is not as fully developed as
an adult’s. Sometimes as adults
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appointments, soccer games,
dance lessons, visit to grandma’s,
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child may not have the same per
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structured group activities may
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This is not a time of play where a
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