During the Summer the kids and parents have nothing to do other than what their hearts decide on. Still the Summer's seem to be packed full end to end with no free time in sight. That's just if you look at the weekend. When the kids head back to school, free time is no longer something you have on a calendar.
Outside of the normal school classes and homework, kids are constantly busy. As school budgets get tighter, the school days are getting shorter (yet the teachers are getting paid more). 8am to 4pm is not filled with classes anymore. So you have to compensate with activities. Sports, groups, clubs, meetings, after school programs, anything to fill the time. As they get more involved the meetings become more frequent and leak farther into the evening hours. Family dinner times disappear because the kids have practice until 6am and they still have to do their homework. You can't have them stay up until 10pm so you rush them off to bed by 8pm because as a parent, they are not infringing on your time.
Labor Day is truly the end of the Summer Break. The school year is not about school anymore. How much can we cram into a child's life and drive the parents crazy with scheduling life? Because the activities take up the weekdays that means that all the preparations lead up to the weekends. Saturdays are game days, Sundays are church if you are up to it, grocery shopping, laundry and the rest of the day is consumed by you getting ready for the upcoming week's worth of activities. From September to May this is how it goes.
Labor Day truly is about Labor. It reminds you how much Labor that you will be doing as Summer fades away.
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