Why Overloading Children’s Schedules Is Bad
Overloading children’s schedules can have quite negative and serious consequences for your child.
On many occasions, parents overload the agenda of their own children without taking into account at any time the consequences that such fact has for the minor. As with adults, a child with few free hours a day can have strong episodes of stress or anxiety .
That is why parents should think at all times that overloading their children with too many activities outside of school is not good for their health both physically and mentally. Then we will talk about the negative consequences that overloading the children’s agenda is going to have.
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WHY IS IT BAD AND INADVISABLE TO OVERLOAD THE CHILDREN’S AGENDA
There are many studies that indicate that children should have a lifestyle in which in addition to studying, they can have free time to enjoy and escape from day-to-day responsibilities. It has been shown that children who have a greater number of hours to carry out free activities are capable of achieving a series of set objectives in addition to having better functions from the cognitive point of view than those children who have no free time at all .
Children should have free time for themselves and in this way be able to relax from day to day. If this happens, the child will be able to perform much better in all areas of life as well as being able to fulfill all tasks in a totally efficient way.
Those children who go to class every day and do not have free time for them due to the extracurricular activities they have to attend in the afternoons, often have serious emotional and mental problems such as stress or anxiety. This type of problems in such young children is quite worrying as well as dangerous since in the long run they can become much more serious than they may seem at first.
The aforementioned stress can provoke in the minor a less development in the executive functions. That is why the experts point out that extracurricular activities must be taken in their proper measure and not exceeded in them. A child is a child and must have free time to do what he likes such as playing with other children and enjoying the company of his parents. Today there are many children who, because of their parents, barely have free time for it, having an overloaded schedule during the week.
The parents should consider stopping all the time to think what they are doing wrong and look for the welfare of their own children. On many occasions, the selfishness of the parents themselves makes them want to have their children away from home for as long as possible.
You have to think that extracurricular activities are fine when they are not abused and they serve so that the little one can develop and promote some type of activity that he likes, such as sports or music. From there to point the child to several extracurricular activities there is a long way and it is that the experts in the field advise that the child have at most three a week of extracurricular activities.
Remember, therefore, that overloading the children’s agenda can have quite negative consequences for your child since, apart from the aforementioned stress or anxiety, the child’s brain development can be affected by not having the free time to be able to disconnect from their daily tasks to day and being forced to spend all day doing things.
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.