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


"Rosalie B." <gmbeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This sounds a little bit like a troll to me because I don't really see
how a first grader could do all these things. My children had
activities out the wazoo, and even WE did not do so many things and
not in the first grade.


Rosalie, I agree with you. Red flags went up for me also. That's nearly 14
hours of activity on top of a school schedule.

Right now, my ds is in K and takes only one activity at a time. If he showed
strong interest in something else I would probably allow it but *I* don't
want to be overscheduled like that. I feel very, very strongly that kids
need unstructured playtime on a daily basis and there's no way the OP's kid
can get that with that schedule.

Ds just finished mini-mite hockey which was 2 hours a week. He's taking a
kids fitness class at my gym for 45 min./week for a 6 week session. Then
he's going to play lacrosse with the Y starting next friday for one
hour/week. The only thing I would like to change is to add a non-sport
activity but it just happens to be where his interests lie. I've tried
music, art, science classes but he just prefers the sports.

JennP.


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