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Seeing this question asked is sort of sad. Did this become a less common experience? What killed it?
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I dunno. I moved to Europe and there's smartphones and social media here. But my colleagues kids are at birthday parties and hanging out with friends and going to events every weekend. This seems like a real US thing.
Last weekend there was a big national festival in my area (Nijmeegse vierdaagse). I was late after the friday drinks at work. The trainand the stations were chuck full of teens and early 20 kids. They looked to be havin as much fun and being as stupid as I was at that age. Didn't seem like much had changed in that regard.
To my knowledge kids in US have 10x the scheduled activities on weekends compared to the past. Apparently the thought of a kid just lying around all weekend entertaining themselves is gone. They have to have scheduled camps all summer as well.
They have scheduled camps all summer because both parents have to work, and those are often cheaper than regular childcare.
It's mostly a privileged thing. Everyone else just let's their kid read books and whatever to pass the time or takes them to the YMCA or boys and girls club, etc.
That sounds hellish to me.