# @theworkspaceforchildren on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbhKlaiFDgt
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68615896-theworkspaceforchildren-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/c708068b0c.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-08-02T00:49:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Lizzie Assa, MsED| Play and Parenting (@theworkspaceforchildren) — https://gondola.cc/theworkspaceforchildren

## Caption

The fall registration emails are hitting, and if your stomach tightens a little when they do, this one’s for you.
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Somewhere along the way a packed calendar turned into a report card for the mom. Open afternoons started to feel like falling behind. They’re not.
➡️My oldest quit youth sports young. We let him. Those unscheduled hours became bikes, Legos, a passion for aviation, and years later, a sport he found entirely on his own clock. The medals are real. But they were never the point. What he built in that open time was self-trust, and he’d have carried that with him no matter how it turned out.
Before you fill every afternoon this fall, protect a few empty ones.
The five things I look at before signing my kids up for anything are in the full post 
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#youthsports #fallactivities #playmatters

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- **Likes:** 4,665
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## Tags

youthsports, fallactivities, playmatters

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