Is It Normal To Be Out Every Night
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Anonymous
| If one kid is on two soccer teams, it sounds like there's an easy place to cut back, right? Otherwise, sounds completely normal. Keep in mind that the busy years don't last for ever. One or more kids may drop sports or an other activity along the way, and all too soon if you are posting in the tween and teen forum, the older kid will be driving. And then you'll be sad that you don't spend as much time with your kids as you did when they had activities every night of the week. |
Anonymous
| Normal but worth some shuffling to get things closer to your home and minimised travel times. |
Anonymous
Not luck, its parenting. We spend plenty of time together. Family times doesn't always have to be meals at home. |
Anonymous
| Two kids and that's our life. Carpools help, we drive one way another family drives the other. |
Anonymous
| Maybe normal for today, but not normal in my childhood. 9 kids in my family and we all just did our own activities without parental involvement. You don't HAVE to do it all. Frankly that sounds miserable, and I wouldn't sign up for that life. |
Anonymous
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Not normal for us. Activities are mostly at school. Kids can get themselves to and from, including year round competition level sport (we purposely chose the walkable team). One exception is a lesson on Saturday and weekend sporting events about once/month.
The kids do private and school team sports, instrumental music, academic clubs, and theater. |
Anonymous
| No I don’t think it is normal. Can some do the same activities? Can some be a carpool with team mates or other scouts? Why is scouts so time consuming? I thought they only met every 2 weeks. |
Anonymous
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It's normal for my kids - who are high energy, as is my husband. Right now I'm the only one home
(one at sport practice, one at rehearsal for something, DH at work still). |
Anonymous
It can be, and is for a lot of families, but you have to determine if this works for your family and marriage. In our house we don’t do 2-3 activities per kid per season because we believe that everyone needs unstructured down time. FWIW we also don’t do sport specialization or huge amounts of private instruction for young kids. |
Anonymous
| We did this. Kids older now and I really wish we hadn’t. Not good for the family, our marriage or relationships. It’s hard when “everyone is doing it” |
Anonymous
| We don't do this. Life it too short to waste on activities that your kids will drop in a just a few years. You need to pace yourself. |
Anonymous
| Does this end by HS varsity sports? Don't they practice right after school? |
Anonymous
How is it that they have 4 soccer teams for 3 kids??? Learn to say no |
Anonymous
| This is very normal and also crazy if you think about how our kid's activities have highjacked our and their downtime. So if you cut back or rearrange (music teacher who comes to the house, attend every other scouts meeting or event, drop one soccer team) you may be able to get a little more time to just be home and doing -well- nothing! |
Anonymous
| Not normal for our family (4 kids). Kids do not need to do every travel sport they are invited to do. Rec leagues are fine. Family time is really important to us. |