Maybe PG children thrive on the overscheduling.
Ren
This idea has occurred to me after hearing about the schedules of a few families I know with PG kids. I know the kids well enough to believe that they actually thrive on lots of extracurriculars.
These are kids with two characteristics that, IMO, justify such scheduling: they have since infancy slept less than the average child (some, according to their mothers, basically never napped), and they have that unquenchable, always-on, intense drive to find things out. Hence their multiple foreign-language and musical-instrument lessons and participation in more than one sport at a time.
Remembering the tone of many posts I've seen on gifted forums wondering frantically how to occupy an extremely energetic PG toddler or young kid, I think their parents are just answering an intense need for learning opportunities.
To someone who doesn't know kids like this well, such a situation might look or sound like overscheduling. But for the kids, it's really just 'scheduling'!
