[foobarian]

It's easy to see that they may need this service. I'm wondering more why the rest of us proles need to be told about it. Sorry to go off ToS a bit but the concept is grating.

More on the subject, this relates to the common discussion on benefits of scheduled vs. free time for kids. Many lament how the up and coming generation has no free time to be creative etc. Any parents with older kids care to chime in how things turned out? Having a two year old, I have a vested interest :-)

On one hand I can see the overscheduled approach being kind of soulless, maybe lead to loss of creativity etc. But on the other hand, it's not the 50's any more, and it seems like it's not practical to leave kids alone these days. There is also a bit of a network effect at play; if all the neighborhood kids are off learning piano / playing soccer, leaving your kid home alone is no use if the neighborhood is deserted and there aren't any others to play with.