I've seen them. There are some children who thrive on that sort of intensive scheduling, if their parents work with them to determine what the child actually wants (or doesn't want) to do, but there are many more who never get a chance to be alone and be impulsive because everything is scheduled.
It's the same, as she mentioned, about the protection from dirt and bugs. We saw that back in the 60s and 70s, those children who were mollycoddled and never allowed to play in the mud or fall down and get scrapes were the ones who ended up taking lots of time off school because they were ill with things to which the rest of us had developed immunities as babies. They were ones who didn't know how to take teasing or falling out with a friend, because it had never been allowed. Ones who were never taught how to cope with a torn shirt because it had never happened to them before.
She mentions the recent study that a glass of wine during pregnancy might actually be good for the baby. I don't know how much weight to give that study (like all medical research they'll say one thing one week and the opposite the next), but I saw the reaction to it from the UK government bodies: "We still advise no alcohol at all during pregnancy" no matter what the study says, because there is the old puritan attitude of "alcohol is evil" (and drugs, and anything else which might be fun).
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It's the same, as she mentioned, about the protection from dirt and bugs. We saw that back in the 60s and 70s, those children who were mollycoddled and never allowed to play in the mud or fall down and get scrapes were the ones who ended up taking lots of time off school because they were ill with things to which the rest of us had developed immunities as babies. They were ones who didn't know how to take teasing or falling out with a friend, because it had never been allowed. Ones who were never taught how to cope with a torn shirt because it had never happened to them before.
She mentions the recent study that a glass of wine during pregnancy might actually be good for the baby. I don't know how much weight to give that study (like all medical research they'll say one thing one week and the opposite the next), but I saw the reaction to it from the UK government bodies: "We still advise no alcohol at all during pregnancy" no matter what the study says, because there is the old puritan attitude of "alcohol is evil" (and drugs, and anything else which might be fun).