In "All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed" Esther Entin discovers that schools are cutting down kids free/play time, to get them more serious about their work. Most of the article talks about how children's play time has been declining for many years. Since the recess time has decreased, the article states that it's keeping kids from turning into confident adults. That's not good!

the article includes quotes and facts from researchers. One fact that stood out to me was ".... compared to 1981, children in 1977 spent less time in play and had less free time. They spent 18 percent more time at school, 145 percent more time doing school work, and 168 percent more time shopping with parents." This quote shows that not only schools but also parents are taking away children's free time. Instead of shopping with their parents children could be somewhere enjoying them self.

I think that declining childern's free time is a bad idea. While kids are usually at free time they are expressing their self. For example, a game of cops and robbers lets kids think about the career of becoming a police officer. Without them even having a chance to go outside and play they wont have that idea in mind. The only thing that they'll be worried about is work. Too much work and not enough free time time can stress a child out.

This article reminded me of the school Mastery I attended last year. They stop giving recess at 6th grade. All we did was work on top of work. Even at lunch we weren't able to get out our seats. The school barley went on trips or did anything fun. I was very stressed out at only the age of 12 and 13.