Family Life
How activities shape the rest of the household: siblings, parents’ work, meals and rest, and the decisions families make together.
About this subject
An activity belongs to one child, but its schedule reaches the whole household: siblings’ evenings, parents’ work, meals and rest, and decisions the family makes together.
Little national research looks at the household as a whole. Where evidence exists, it is mostly about time and who carries it, and about how much children take on. How many activities should a child do? weighs a schedule against sleep, play and rest; the time behind children’s activities covers the driving, the waiting and who in the family does it.
Questions we study
- How does one child’s schedule affect their brothers and sisters?
- How do parents divide the driving, the waiting and the planning?
- How do activities change meals, rest and time spent together?