Yes. Your Kid is overscheduled.

[Anonymous]

Rant.

I'm sick of going out with Mom friends who are complaining about how busy their kids are. GUESS WHAT? You can control that. And I'm annoyed about your kid having to leave games or missing games because they have another sport that they choose over my kid's team. Sucks to forfeit because half the team chose soccer over baseball. GUESS WHAT? You can control that too.

And whatever happened to being bored? Lazing around with a book? Playdates? Riding your bike around the neighborhood to see who is around? I can't even schedule a d@mn playdate because your kid has one of their 3 sports or private lessons for one of those 3 sports every waking moment of the weekend.

You're the freaking parent. Tell your kid they need to pick and can't do every sport and activity under the sun. PROBLEM SOLVED.

And didn't we all agree that the one part of COVID that we liked was the slower pace and more time with family? Why are we overcorrecting now?

Can't say this to their faces, so I'm saying it here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rant.

I'm sick of going out with Mom friends who are complaining about how busy their kids are. GUESS WHAT? You can control that. And I'm annoyed about your kid having to leave games or missing games because they have another sport that they choose over my kid's team. Sucks to forfeit because half the team chose soccer over baseball. GUESS WHAT? You can control that too.

And whatever happened to being bored? Lazing around with a book? Playdates? Riding your bike around the neighborhood to see who is around? I can't even schedule a d@mn playdate because your kid has one of their 3 sports or private lessons for one of those 3 sports every waking moment of the weekend.

You're the freaking parent. Tell your kid they need to pick and can't do every sport and activity under the sun. PROBLEM SOLVED.

And didn't we all agree that the one part of COVID that we liked was the slower pace and more time with family? Why are we overcorrecting now?

Can't say this to their faces, so I'm saying it here.

Totally with you OP. I have a friend who is constantly complaining about how much driving around she does for her three kids' sports, including soccer for a three year old who already goes to daycare. Wellllll, you signed up for it, and sports for a non-school aged kid are not necessary.

[Anonymous]

I agree op. It's not really good for kids either.

[Anonymous]

I have found that with my kid's peers this varies WILDLY. Some kids are in every single activity, it's nuts. We usually do just 1-2 at a time, and that seems to suit my kids just fine. We have lots of time for playdates, and host them or go to them frequently.

So if the kids you are trying to hang with is too busy, just look a little harder for this less scheduled kids. They are there too, I promise!

[Anonymous]

Why are you "scheduling d*mn play dates"? If your kids are so amazing, aren't they responsible enough to knock on a few doors around the neighborhood and invite people over, or ride their bike to the playground and make new friends there?

Wait, I thought kids were supposed to be bored--but you're social engineering play dates? Which is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you "scheduling d*mn play dates"? If your kids are so amazing, aren't they responsible enough to knock on a few doors around the neighborhood and invite people over, or ride their bike to the playground and make new friends there?

Wait, I thought kids were supposed to be bored--but you're social engineering play dates? Which is it?

And before you start in with me, my kids do activities exactly one weeknight and one weekend afternoon EVERY OTHER weekend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rant.

I'm sick of going out with Mom friends who are complaining about how busy their kids are. GUESS WHAT? You can control that. And I'm annoyed about your kid having to leave games or missing games because they have another sport that they choose over my kid's team. Sucks to forfeit because half the team chose soccer over baseball. GUESS WHAT? You can control that too.

And whatever happened to being bored? Lazing around with a book? Playdates? Riding your bike around the neighborhood to see who is around? I can't even schedule a d@mn playdate because your kid has one of their 3 sports or private lessons for one of those 3 sports every waking moment of the weekend.

You're the freaking parent. Tell your kid they need to pick and can't do every sport and activity under the sun. PROBLEM SOLVED.

And didn't we all agree that the one part of COVID that we liked was the slower pace and more time with family? Why are we overcorrecting now?

Can't say this to their faces, so I'm saying it here.

Say it to my face 🤡

[Anonymous]

I’m raising the kid I was given and the kid I was given wants to be active in many sports.

He’s happy and thriving and all his activities are worth it even if it makes me tired.

[Anonymous]

I am guilty of this, except we don’t skip things to make other things. It’s frustrating how quickly you can become busy because everything is piecemeal and every organization has a different schedule that isn’t released until you sign up.

Heritage language, Saturday is taken up
Instrument, that’s one afternoon a week
Swimming is a must for safety, that could be once or twice per week

Then what do you even have that is purely elective?
Team sport has 1 or 2 practices and a game each week, but you don’t know the schedule until a week or two before season.

[Anonymous]

Nooe is around for playdates where we are
I can either take off work early and do childcare or take my kid to a 4:30 karate class that she loves. I do think we have too many activities right now and will scale back when one phases out and its warmer and we can do playground evenings instead. Early ES is such a great time to try new things and there isnt too much homework is any and there is so much energy these kids have.

[Anonymous]

Speak for yourself, lady. Mine has way too much time at home to play video games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nooe is around for playdates where we are
I can either take off work early and do childcare or take my kid to a 4:30 karate class that she loves. I do think we have too many activities right now and will scale back when one phases out and its warmer and we can do playground evenings instead. Early ES is such a great time to try new things and there isnt too much homework is any and there is so much energy these kids have.

Yes nobody is free for play dates. They are in aftercare, or else being shuttled around to math or sports. I had my kid take a semester off aftercare and had light activity schedule and there was nobody around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Speak for yourself, lady. Mine has way too much time at home to play video games.

[Anonymous]

My kids want to do every sport under the sun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids want to do every sport under the sun.

OP says you need to get them to pick one.