Activities are commendable

Step by step, over the past fifty years, it has become cheaper and easier to outsource this work to professionals.
Now the only work being done in many of our homes is a periodic cleanup of the mess that we make.In the absence of work, we've created a generation of parents who selflessly devote themselves to providing their children with enriching experiences— so-called soccer moms,a term that wasn't even part of the American lexicon until fifteen years ago. They lovingly cart children around to soccer,lacrosse, basketball, football,
hockey,and baseball teams;dance,
gymnastics,music, and Chinese lessons; send them on a semester abroad to London; and to so many camps that many children don't even have the time to get a part-time job in the summer.Taken individually,each of these can be a wonderful chance for a child to develop,and an excellent substitute for all the work that used to take place around the home.Kids can learn to overcome difficult challenges
,take on responsibility, become good team players. They're opportunities to develop the critical processes that kids will need to succeed later in life.
Too often,however,parents foist all these experiences on their children without that in mind.Now,on one hand,exposing them to lots of activities is commendable. You want to help your kids discover something that they truly enjoy doing,and it's actually critical for them to find something that will motivate them to develop their own processes.
在过去的五十年里，将工作外包给专业人士已经变得越来越便宜，越来越容易容易。现在，我们许多家庭唯一做的工作就是定期清理我们制造的垃圾。在没有家务的情况下，我们创造了一代父母，他们无私地致力于为他们的孩子提供丰富的经历——就是所谓的足球妈妈，这个词直到15年前才出现在美国词典里。他们喜欢带着孩子去足球、曲棍球、篮球、橄榄球、曲棍球和棒球队；上舞蹈、体操、音乐和中文课；送他们去伦敦学习一个学期；去很多的夏令营，以至于许多孩子甚至在夏天都没时间找一份兼职工作。单独来看，这些都是孩子发展的绝佳机会，也是过去所有家务劳动的绝佳替代品。孩子们可以学会挑战克服困难，承担责任，成为优秀的团队成员，这些都是发展关键过程的机会，这些过程是孩子们在以后的生活中取得成功所必需的。
然而，很多时候，父母把所有这些经验强加给他们的孩子，却没有考虑到这一点。一方面，让孩子接触大量的活动是值得称赞的。你想帮助你的孩子发现他们真正喜欢做的事情，事实上，对他们来说，找到能够激励他们发展自己的过程的事情是至关重要的。