What activities will your rising 2nd grader ds do this fall?
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Anonymous
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Cub scouts and swimming lessons, if I can find an instructor that works!! My DS doesn't like sports or thrive in group settings so I see no reason to push him into another organized group after a whole day of that at school that would stress him out. When he's older I'll require a weekly activity after school, but I think he's too young to really worry about it yet. I will start music lessons (prob piano) in a year or two.
It would be nice to have a weekend community/family activity but we are not religious - any ideas? |
Anonymous
sure but 7 is still pretty little. there's time! |
Anonymous
PP here. Gymnastics is actually one of the few sports that's better to pick up early. She loves the cameraderie with Scouts, and also likes her instrument. I think as long as they enjoy the activities, and there is some unscheduled time, if you can afford it what's the harm? |
Anonymous
My son enjoys his activities. He asks to do them. He would do soccer and baseball if we let him. And while there is still time, you can see a pretty stark difference in the kids who started playing blastball at 4 and the kid who is playing baseball for the first time at 7. I doubt DS is going to play on the high school team or anything along those lines but he loves playing. They start playing kid pitch at the age of 8, is that when you want your kid to be learning to bat or throw? I get that there are different philosophies on parenting but I know that he enjoys what he is doing and tells us when he doesn’t like something. He has stead fastly declined playing an instrument and told us which camps he doesn’t want to do again. This works for us. He is tired when he goes to bed but happy. He has four days a week with a more chill pace, his grades are excellent, and he has a good group of friends. And there are parents whose kids are already playing travel soccer and baseball at this age. So we are not even the “hard core” families. Your family might not be into these things but plenty of families are. What the OP should take away is that she should do what fits for her family and that will make her child happy. |
Anonymous
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Mine is playing soccer (a weeknight practice and Saturday game) and then we have Sunday school.
I can’t handle anymore because I have two others who are also doing soccer and I’m just crossing my fingers that there aren’t too many overlaps. |
Anonymous
| Aftercare every day - and she usually chooses the structured activities instead of playtime. So violin, cooking, golf, etc through that. Other activities include a community choir once a week, soccer (one evening practice and one weekend game) and gymnastics once a week. After soccer ends, we may try a dance class or synchronized swim class (she graduated from swim lessons last spring and isn’t interested in swim team). |
Anonymous
+1000 My kids are not in elementary school anymore so I can say this from experience. I feel I wasted my time and their childhood shitting from one activity to another. My kids tried soccer, basketball, gymnastics, musical instruments, martial arts, swim teams.. there was no ‘team work’ or anything in soccer or basketball. Kids are hyper competitive, they don’t pass the ball. All that our swim coach did was yell at 7 year olds. How is that environment healthy for kids? Kids learn at a very young age these days that they need to be better than everyone else. They don’t build friendships, they compete in a very unhealthy way. Also let me tell you this, I pulled my kids out of soccer and basketball when everyone else joined travel teams. But here is the thing, except for 1 kid no one played soccer or basketball for their school. They don’t even play the sport for fun anymore.. what a waste? |
Anonymous
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We do one music (piano) and sport at a time max. Right now we're doing piano for sure, but she's kind of punted on a sport. We were going to do swim lessons into the fall, but she's made so much progress this summer I'm not sure.
I have younger kids too, and am definitely maxed out. |
Anonymous
| Girl Scouts, dance, basketball, piano, advanced math class, and swimming. |
Anonymous
| Dance 2x a week and swimming |
Anonymous
| Soccer and baseball in the fall, each have one practice and one game a week. He also does cub scouts, it’s usually one meeting and one activity a month. He is very active and social and likes his activities. School ends at 3 and sports are at 6, so he has 3 hours to relax, play outside, read, eat dinner etc before we head to practice. In the winter he will probably play basketball or maybe skating lessons, and swimming in the spring. He likely won’t have the skills to play any sports in HS, but he loves them and I’ll let him play as long as he wants. |
Anonymous
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My child will be in third but he was in second last year.
DS played soccer on a team. He also did tennis clinic. Tennis was in the winter so not at the same time as soccer. DS has a 30 min piano lesson at our house. He doesn’t practice all that much, maybe 10-15 min per day. DS also does cub scouts and chess club. He loves all his activities. So much energy and never tired. He also does 1-2 play dates per week. |
Anonymous
| Travel soccer 2-3 days a week, religious Ed. |
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| My DS is also introverted and pretty tired after school. While I'd love to have him in a few things...he's just not interested. We swim on weekends as a family, but after school, he prefers to piddle around the house...plays Legos, goes outside, generally just chills. |
Anonymous
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Sunday religious school (Jewish)
violin (daily practice and 1-2 lessons/week) 1 sport (swim team, basketball) |