Re: After school activities - am I over doing it?

On Mar 29, 7:08 pm, "AM" <anu.melk...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All:

I really appreciate your input. Right now, with the exception of kumon
(15-20 mins. a day) and occassionally violin, I don't make her
practice anything else. She gets it easily without trying too hard.
Anyway, she has time after school -- she does not get any homework.
She is made to sit in second-grade for language arts, spanish,
reading, and math, so I don't try to teach her much else at home. I
don't know what to do with her -- if she's not doing activities
outside of home, she gets too creative playing by herself -- one time
she set up a middle-age style laundry with a bucket, bat to pound
clothes, some salt+candle bits+oil mix (??) for soap of sorts, then
one time she was playing spa with peanut butter mask, and one time
made a sculpture with paper mache (made out of newspaper, glue,
glitter, flour, sugar and God knows what else), and what I am to do?
Instead of saying no to everything, I am trying to keep her busy...
well if she is not making these the out-of-the-world creative wonders
then she starts throwing amazing tantrums. What am I to do?

Personally, I'd encourage such activities. Creativity is something
that's often stifled in kids, when it should be encouraged. She sounds
very bright, let her explore where her mind will take her!

I'm not a fan of over-structured activities, however, I was like your
daughter as a kid. Drove my mom batty, but she gave me room to create,
for which I am always appreciative.

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