Structured_After_School_Activities

Structured After School Activities Studies have proven that structured after school activities directly correlate to the mood and self-worth of children. Many children today grow up in families in which the guardian(s) are unable to be in attendance for the majority of the childhood, when presence is most crucial. When there is a parent-adolescent detachment, after-school activities increase the child’s chances for success. Along with that, there are also social strains that are put on children that may make life difficult. Utilizing after-school activities, such as sports, dance or membership in a club, may positively impact the child so that they feel attached to something, replacing the detachment from the parents, as well as reduces the chances of the child resorting to harmful social strains. A parent-adolescent study was done by Mahoney, Schweder and Stattin which found that children who had detached relations to their parents had a much higher level of depressed mood. “Adolescents who participated in after-school activities reported low levels of depressed mood compared to adolescents not participating in such activities…” (Mahoney et al 69). Children with depressed moods do not live the same sort of life as do kids who have parents around all the activities, youth, children, child, after-school, school, structured, parents, after, social, strains, participate, make, mahoney, unstructured, time, sources, relationships, peer, parent-adolescent, negative, having, detachment, detached, butcher, ashton, skills, services, much, mood, et, essential, depressed, decisions, consist