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Is your child over-scheduled?
Football practice, piano lessons, ballet class, karate, tennis lessons, maths tutoring…can a kid juggle this many activities and still benefit from and enjoy it all? Take this quiz to see if your child is at risk of becoming burned out from an overloaded schedule.

By Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld and Nicole Wise, authors of The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap
 

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1. When it's time for your child to be on her way to practice or a lesson, she:
  Often dawdles, forgets things or even throws tantrums about going.
  Is ready to roll.
 
2. Does your child sometimes have trouble keeping track of where he is supposed to be on a particular day?
  No
  Yes
 
3. How many sports or other extra-curricular activities is your child involved in during a single school term?
  As many as she wants.
  One per term.
 
4. Does your child often stay up past bedtime to complete homework?
  No
  Yes
 
5. Does your child sometimes complain that she never gets to do the things she wants to do?
  Yes
  No
 
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