Image: Freepik It usually starts with good intentions. You want your child to have access to opportunities, to discover their passions, to be around peers, and to build confidence through achievement. So you sign them up for soccer, piano lessons, coding camp, and the school’s drama club. It sounds manageable at first—on paper, anyway. But as the calendar fills, the afternoons stretch thinner and thinner, and you realize you’ve accidentally booked your child a full-time job by age ten. Somewhere in the rush between homework and rehearsals, we forget that children aren’t mini adults. They need productivity, yes, but they also need that beautiful, unstructured thing we often ignore: downtime.…