Re:I need to stop being boring
by leaflets2 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:22PM
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> Even weekends are basically more studying and extra-curricular classes for my kids (ballet, phonics, mental math, painting)
Do they enjoy doing all these things? Thinking back to when I was a kid, I would rather have spent the time with friends, doing unplanned nothing special things.
I wonder if they don't actually have a weekend, instead, they have "work-end"?
What if both you and they would be happier, if you cancelled some of the extracurricular things.
Maybe they find things themselves to do -- for example, as a kid I bought books about software, and taught myself. But if you've decided that they are to learn painting etc (which is fun too I think :-)) then, maybe there's not much time left for them to decide?
Just some thoughts, what do I know. And I've made some guesses / assumptions about your situation, maybe they're incorrect
Do they enjoy doing all these things? Thinking back to when I was a kid, I would rather have spent the time with friends, doing unplanned nothing special things.
I wonder if they don't actually have a weekend, instead, they have "work-end"?
What if both you and they would be happier, if you cancelled some of the extracurricular things.
Maybe they find things themselves to do -- for example, as a kid I bought books about software, and taught myself. But if you've decided that they are to learn painting etc (which is fun too I think :-)) then, maybe there's not much time left for them to decide?
Just some thoughts, what do I know. And I've made some guesses / assumptions about your situation, maybe they're incorrect
Edit: now i see you've in a way partly replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30933886