Re: Late activities?

I've been keeping tabs on the sleep and older children thread, and am
personally quite amazed at how many extracurricular activities (even
for younger children) take place at what I consider to be eating
dinner/getting ready for bed time - i.e. after 7pm! Swimming, piano
lessons, etc....!!! Is this a normal thing in the US? It's definitely

My daughter has jumprope practice from 6-8 on Tues and Thurs. It's late,
but they use an elementary school gym and can't have it until then, as it is
used by the after-school program. The worst thing about the timing is
dinner - she needs to eat either really early (can't be eating a huge meal
and then bouncing around for 2 hours right afterwards ;-) or late - but she
doesn't feel like eating much afterwards either.

Anyway, it does make for later nights than I'd like sometimes, but we've
adjusted pretty well.

Laura


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