Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/from-a-parents-perspective-no-hang-time/5013596/
- Situation -At noon in Seattle, it is already 3 pm in New York and 9 am the next day in Singapore or Australia, but for many children how that time gets used does not change much from place to place.
In Singapore, children spend their days at school, their afternoons doing homework and taking part in music, tutorial, or sports programs. On the weekends, they take special enrichment classes.
In Seattle and New York, children spend their days at school, their afternoons playing soccer, baseball, and doing homework. On the weekends, they join their teams for competitions, work on school projects, or maybe take part in pottery classes.
In Australia, children spend their days at school, their afternoons at sports or after-school programs, and their evenings doing homework. On weekends, they play sports, watch sports, and maybe practice their instruments.
These are the lives of children with some affluence, filled to bursting with the largesse of material things but lacking one crucial commodity.
- Solution -
When do children just hang? Hang is American shorthand for hanging out. The meaning is not very complex. Hang is basically doing nothing - intentionally. It is a time to hang onto some part of the globe and just ...