Avoiding activities that meet on the weekend?
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Anonymous
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DC did rec soccer this spring and enjoyed it. However, I’m thinking about saying no to the fall because it feels like months of weekends have been taken over by soccer. I think we need a different plan for fall.
Do you do activities and just plan to skip some weeks? Resign yourself to committed weekends? Look for only weekday activities? What are your strategies? |
Anonymous
| I try to do only Saturday activities and save Sundays for family and other things. That means when there's a holiday Monday we have two days. But it does make Saturday kind of intense. Personally I hate weeknight activities so I only do Saturdays and Sundays if I'm pressed. |
Anonymous
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I try to find something for them in the weekends. You can always drop off and pick up. I never liked hosting playdates and it gets them active and seeing friends. No, we don’t skip the games but we alternate who takes who.
Your kids don’t have to play sports. Plenty don’t. What do they want to do? |
Anonymous
| Nope ,we love having sports on the weekend. |
Anonymous
| Weekends being filled are just a part of having children with social lives. You can always keep them home and entertain them yourself on the weekend. You don’t just skip weekends here and there though, you just don’t sign up for any structured activities. |
Anonymous
Same!! It’s great for them both physically and mentally. Learning teamwork is a lifelong skill. What would you do with your child if there were no sports on your weekend? |
Anonymous
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We tried this one fall season. Worst choice we made. All my kid's friends were busy at sports or some other classes so no playdates.
A lot would have classes and games in the morning or early afternoon and then afternoon was either family time, or playdates with kids from the class/team. My child wasn't happy and we ended up trying to fill time with fun stuff and enduring whining during errands. By the winter we had had it and signed her up for a session of gymnastics and swimming and then spring rolled around and she started sports again. |
Anonymous
We would go on family hikes. Visit museums. Go strawberry picking. So many things to do! |
Anonymous
If that's what your kid wants to do then just do that. But if they want to play sports and see their friends then you need to resign yourself to what weekends with kids looks like. |
Anonymous
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You can pick activities with no games/meets (like a rec gymnastics class or a swim lesson).
Or, choose activities that meet Saturday morning or subs at evening. I avoid activities that meet in the middle of the weekend. We like to go camping a lot, go out of town for a long weekend, etc. |
Anonymous
Are they really young? Those activities get old fast and they want to see friends on the weekends. We stopped the regular family hikes and museums by around 2nd grade. |
Anonymous
This is what I was thinking. That was my idealized version of what our family would spend weekends doing, but it didn't last and there really aren't enough of those activities to fill the time. |
Anonymous
| My kids do ice skating and gymnastics classes on Saturday mornings. No big deal. |
Anonymous
Same here! Well, I was never an athlete, but my three children are and they love it. It’s definitely time consuming but they are happy and it keeps them fit. We try our best to reserve Sunday mornings for church and have family Sunday dinners because our weeknights are so hectic. It’s not always possible but that’s a goal. |
Anonymous
It’s definitely a little kid thing. No tween wants to spend every Saturday morning with parents doing a hike or visiting a petting zoo. |