Kids today have such heavy backpacks. This is caused by carrying too many heavy books. Kids have to carry these heavy books to be used for all their homework. A study shows that children should only carry up to ten percent of their body weight. Children today carry almost twenty percent of their body weight. For some children, heavy books cause back problems. In the 1980's children spent only an hour and a half to …showed first 75 words of 208 total…

…showed last 75 words of 208 total…would probably be time for their extra curricular activities. Children should spend more time with their family and themselves rather than doing homework. It is much more helpful and educational to have kids spend time learning and exploring by themselves, and having fun and learning with their families. Kids should not have homework on weekends and any other days out of school or else they will worry about doing homework instead of actually learning something