Why You Should Schedule Free Play

Spring sports and activities are just about to overbook kids and parents evenings and weekends. But, you want confident, happy and independent kids, here's why you should have time for free play too.

“Hey, handsome, we gotta cancel some of these,“ I recently called out my husband, sitting in front of my laptop at our Scandinavian-style, light wooden kitchen table, with the glass door to our backyard cracked open, so I could hear the spring rain.

I was looking at our April and May schedules on Google calendar—we had slowly been dropping in repeating …