Agree, team sports are a commitment until another person can take the place. Age to understand the commitments is one variable in deciding what sports to play in. Talking to the coach when he wants to quit is another. If the team is loosely put together then quitting is easier.

Business must be balanced with ethics. Health should not be a get as much money as possible. The market needs to have a cap or only the wealthy could afford it.

Health -care is a staple as food is a staple.

An ounce of prevention IS worth a pound of cure.
Take care of a cold before it becomes pneumonia.
Eat healthier. Get some exercise. Laugh and enjoy.

Parents need "Me" time to de-stress, get to reknow your spouse on a date. If you do not take some "me" time you may end up with having to take a time-out in the corner to cool off.

Kids need supervision. Yet, we all need group time and "me" time. Balance for you and the situation as times go on. Balance is the key.

Social skills can be taught from friends, parents, example, even TV, but only learned by using them. Every society has different acceptable customs for family interaction, neighbor, town, stranger, and the world at large. Technology is changing so many areas: social, spelling, way to learn, perspective, and interaction.

Good and bad because it is change.

To answer, we need to look at one area at a time, then support it with facts. Will multi-tasking cause us to increase / use more of our brain power or are we spreading ourselves too thin? Oops just looked up what percent we use and found out we use it all, 100%, the 10% was a myth. So the answer is we are spreading ourselves too thin by mulit-tasking.

Driving a car and texting is a no.

Talking and texting and watching TV, sure, as long as all is just relaxing unimportant subjects.

The subject is too big to have a yes or no answer.

The home is the first place to put a no electronics at the family gathering like dinner is just for being together to talk and learn and share. No TV and cell phones off. It is one way to teach and learn.

The multiple framing suggestions are good ideas.

The cut up and use as a puzzle would have hurt my kid's feelings, as would mailing many of them out to others or using as wrapping paper to get ripped up as the receiver does when opening any gift.

Most of the art are gifts of LOVE and should be shown with honor thus building self-confidence again.

My experience as a non-morning person was 1. go to bed earlier to get up earlier. 2. learn that I must get up at the assigned time. 3. if ma had not gotten me out of bed and to school, I would have crawled back into bed as soon as she left to go to work. So for me it would have meant MORE days out of school.

As our wise Ben F. said "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

Sports are suppose to teach how to be a good sport. It really is not about winning but about sharing the love and joy of playing that sport. It is about building confidence in yourself. It is about trying your best, win or lose, you are a winner. It is about enjoying the exercise of the sport. It is how to play nice with your teammates and the other team. How to be a GOOD SPORT.

This lesson in sports should teach us and our children to become better people.

Yet, too often... :( ...and few professional sports have good role models. Or at least the good ones are not praised enough for ourselves and for our kids to learn that good behavior will be rewarded.

There is LOTS to learn from sports, when played and shared for fun, confidence building, and health reasons.

lol...so many of us say - yes - too competitive and that ALL should play for fun.

Now let us do something about it to make the game fun for all again.

Thank you for hosting a $100 amazon card. I hope you will be posting the winner on this page AND notifying us if we win.,
Since it seems most are saying for what they would purchase, so will I. Ginger from the Ginger People to control nausea is what I would spend it on. Amazon has some really good deals on cost.

Thank you again. Off to a different area to comment on sports being too competitive.