I'm afraid today's overscheduled children will not have a basis for comparison if given such a choice.

The players, like the parents of that overscheduled piano student, would probably say they were just trying to keep future options open.

One reason for the increase in activity at the mall library may be that overscheduled parents can do several things while there.

There is no camp on earth that can serve as a cure-all for today's overscheduled children.

In an overscheduled world, are there any words more lovely than, "Can we reschedule?"

But if you work backward from that, it’s not about the overscheduled, gratified 8-year-old.

So we have the perfect alibi for procrastination in an overscheduled society.

It wasn’t a long-term commitment, just a brief strike by the sisters against their overscheduled world.

For many overscheduled nature lovers, running can be a quick dose of greenery.

Getting everyone around the table can be a huge juggling exercise for overworked parents and overscheduled children.

We perhaps have lost our collective minds about our overscheduled, overstressed young.

The crisis was carved out of the invisible interstices of overscheduled lives.

Had it up to here with the overscheduled, information-saturated, distraction-filled frenzy that is contemporary American life?

Like their overscheduled parents, many of whom also work through lunch, today's teenagers are accomplished at juggling overcrowded lives.

All that week Belle-Ile worked its magic on our overscheduled psyches.

Now it is the overscheduled child, who, whether driven by parental ambition or the necessity for afternoon supervision, never stops moving.

And so forth — a sly comment, perhaps, on today’s overscheduled kids and their overcommitted parents.

The queen's aides, overseeing her overscheduled day, became alarmed that she was overly enjoying herself and taking too much time.

Bad case here,' the overscheduled visitor said. '

They know there are many overscheduled college students who devote extra hours to academic, extracurricular or part-time jobs and internships.

Perhaps, though, the biggest reason for the burgeoning Friday wedding is the need for another tactic to manage overscheduled lives.

Doug Hughes is another wildly overscheduled director.

There are studies saying the "overscheduled child" is a "myth," but those are about generation-wide statistics.

Children end up overscheduled and in and out of schools and classes, with very little time left over, including for sleep.”

Her daughter-in-law invited me to observe their overscheduled lives firsthand, but on one condition: She did not want her name used.