Balancing extracurricular activities

As the school season starts, many children are embarking on journeys of learning, whether they be in classes and extracurricular activities or in private lessons.

A balanced mix of such pursuits can keep children from being idle after school, especially in America, where students are dismissed from schools around 3 in the afternoon.

I realize that so much extra time and freedom can be a curse in disguise to young children. Paranoid parents schedule too many extracurricular activities, disregarding the actual physical, mental, and psychological loads that their children can bear.