How many kids do you have and how much do you spend per month on their activities?
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Anonymous
+1 That is sickening. The wealthy just waste their money. God forbid their kids learn to have fun on their own and maybe donate a little to kids that have zero opportunities. |
Anonymous
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I just added it up. I have two dd's. We do rec soccer in the Fall and Spring, and that costs $500/year. Summer swim team for both girls is $220/year. American Heritage Girls like Girl Scouts, but we say a short prayer at the beginning and end of our meetings. That costs $150/year. And the big one - horseback riding lessons once a week which is $100/week, so $5,000 per year (we don't go every single week). So that all adds up to $5,870. If my kids show an interest in an activity, I try to help them make it happen.
My older girl wants to do gymnastics over the summer, so she is going to do that. And maybe my younger dd might be good enough for travel soccer. So as their interests change, the activities may change. But I like for them to have activities outside of school especially exercise. |
Anonymous
| My kids both do Tae Kwon Do ($199 each) per month, and various other lesson expensive things like rec soccer for maybe $100 per month. So we spend $500-$600 per month for 2 kids. That seems typical for most people I know in the area. |
Anonymous
| 2 kids, dance (fall-spring $700), soccer $180 per season plus new cleats/guards/balls, inexpensive enrichment activities through school and free DC rec sports like T-ball. So less than $100 per month. But we used to do a more expensive dance class, and we haven't started private music lessons yet. We did a soccer for toddlers and baby-and-me yoga that was more to get Mommy out of the house for one-on-one toddler without the baby #2, on Saturdays. |
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I don't think OP is crazy, when I got to private school in 9th grade, girls there could ride horses, play tennis, play an instrument and some of them had been doing sports teams and clinics etc. for years. One girl had her own horse, which was a rescue, and had to get up at 5 am to exercise him every day before school. She had a lot of ribbons. Took the horse to Pepperdine.
Lot of people w/ $ and SAHM did swim team. Not as many doing dance as in DC - maybe it's more sports oriented in Calif. Of course languages - Spanish or French mostly, Hebrew of course, Russian, Urdu or Mandarin if there was a family connection. |
Anonymous
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Should I count aftercare and summer camp? Those are childcare expenses, probably around $6,000 a year total.
One seven year old. Scouts is $100 a year. Rec soccer fall and spring, about $200 total. Just added swimming lessons b/c he is really not getting it. $100. So $400 a year, or I suppose about $50 a month during the school year. We also belong to a co-op pool b/c of him. That's our summer activity and about $500 a season. |
Anonymous
| I'm surprised at how little most PPs spend but it goes to show you what kind of parents I know. Many people I know do something like this… $250 a month for martial art/ swimming/travel soccer/dance (main sport) + $100 a month for piano or other music + $50-100 a month for second sport or heritage language. This is per kid. $400-$450 a month and that doesn't count things like scouts or the random after school stem class or whatever. |
Anonymous
Where? My daughter would love to play soccer. |
Anonymous
| Parent of two special needs kids here, plus one w/o special needs. We probably pay $4,000 a month for after school programs -- speech, OT, and PT for two kids, plus art and gymnastics for the non-special needs child. Some of this we get back from insurance; plus some we get back from taxes. But it still adds up to plenty. |
Anonymous
| Two kids, 5 and 7. 100$ a month in aftercare for one day a week. I teach a cooking class 2x a week at school. One of the days they are in after care, the other they are in my class at no cost. The other 3 days we are at the playground or library. No weekend sports. |
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2 children. $300 per month per child. |
Anonymous
Montgomery County Recreation City of Rockville Recreation (don't have to be from there) City of Gaithersburg Recreation MSI is a little pricier than the county/city recs. I think $80 for K and $100 for elementary MSA is an option too. They do after school classes for really cheap. |
Anonymous
You do understand it isn't an either or, right? My kids are in a lot of activities but also play outside with neighborhood friends a lot. Why the judgment? |
Anonymous
2 kids. About the same. My boys would sign up for every activity under the sun if I allowed. My oldest has so much energy, he's literally bouncing out of his skin. |
Anonymous
5 figures to entertain your child. I can't even digest that. I bet the same parents spend a fortune on daycare and summer camps too. |