Whatever happened to kids being able to grab a bat and a ball and organize a game of baseball with the other kids on the block?
Maybe if parents weren’t so intent on planning every second of their children’s day for them, kids would still be able to do it on their own. But it seems to have become more important for parents to look good to other parents by having their kids in soccer on Mondays and Wednesdays, Little League on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Cub Scouts on Fridays.
Parents keep their kids so busy in organized activities that the kids have no time to learn to organize activities, and then they are so used to having adults organize their fun for them, they have no idea how to go out and get a group of kids together to play game of baseball.
These children are learning to be fo1lowers–not leaders.
Every time I see a group of kids that looks like it belongs in the movie “The Sandlot,” it makes me smile.
For one, because I know they are having real, unplanned fun, and two, because I know that they are going to be the ones leading our country in 20 years.
