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Yes, college delays "Real world" maturity. One of my greatest sources of entertainment right now is spelling out dirty words on my Lite Brite. Who does that past the age of 30?
The article on over-progammed kids was interesting. However, neither me or any of the kids I can recall growing up were ever over-programmed. I played soccer for a few years in grade school, but we had practice Thursday nights and a game on Saturday and that was it. I had never heard of traveling teams until I was in middle school. However, it was different for my little sister (whose 15). She wanted to play T-Ball when she was roughly 6 years old, but my mom thought all the local leagues were too competitive (not to mention most of the kids had already been playing in the league for a year or two). I think the delay on maturity comes from the the pressure parents are putting on kids nowadays, and they really don't get much of a childhood.
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