What’s New
A grass-roots initiative of parents collectively reclaiming Sunday as a sports-free day.
Schedule balance into your week by reclaiming Sunday as family day.
Balance4Success at University of Minnesota
A group of students at the U of M adapts Balance4Success for college life. 
Talk About Balance
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Family Mealtime
Countless studies show that regular family mealtimes are more critical for kids’ development than any extracurricular activities.
Youth Sports
Organized sports provide many developmental benefits-and lots of fun. But with play time overwhelming many kids' and family's lives, pediatricians and mental health professionals and youth sports leaders and educators are increasingly concerned that excessive involvement in organized sports can be detrimental to kids' well being in many ways.
Balance In Perspective
What do the experts have to say about the importance of balance?
Urie Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University psychologist and creator of Head Start
"The hectic pace of modern life poses a threat to our children second only to poverty and unemployment. The signs of this breakdown are all around us in the ever growing rates of alienation, apathy, rebellion, delinquency and violence among American youth."
American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness and Committee on School Health
Organized sports programs for preadolescents should complement, not replace, the regular physical activity that is a part of free play, child-organized games, recreational sports, and physical education programs in the schools.
Stanley Greenspan, MD, pediatric psychiatry at George Washington University
"Children of all ages want to spend more time with their parents ... The problem is that parents have been misguided. We've lost faith in family as a means to provide kids with what they need. And we're scheduling activities so tightly that there's not any room for playful exchanges with parents, siblings and peers."