In the article Doing Nothing is Something written by Anna Quindlen is about how kids today have their summers planned out for them second by second, day by day. In the essay she talks about how downtime is good and how parents need to lay back on the planning. For example in the essay she says “My mother would send me to go outside and play now they organize time to play.” In this short quote she describes how much childhood has changed it's no longer about kids going out and playing it's about how all summers are to kids now is more time for more activities more places for the parents to have to drive rushing around to get from one practice to the next ontime. She also says nothing is spontaneous anymore. During this essay she also makes
