Just how much?

Diane and I often wonder about how much Nick should be involved in educational projects, sports, lessons; otherwise known as 'extracurricular' activities. Since Nick shows much in the way of talents associated with verbal skills, I often lobby for language lessons, especially Spanish. Once he started pre-school, we stopped his Spanish lessons for a few reasons, but one of them was Diane's sense that doing both was too much for him.

So, this [non-political] Doonesbury hit home as we attempt to figure out what he is capible of handling.

I did say non-political, but those that follow Doonesbury know full well that the mother complaining about all the time spent exhausting her child is not the mother whose husband is a casualty of war, whereas the other's huband is...

[Like most pictures in this blog, clicking the image should present a readable image.]