What activities will your rising 2nd grader ds do this fall?

[Anonymous]

Martial arts and Sunday school. Also in aftercare, which has regular activities (language, drawing, etc.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t quite get why kids have to do so many activities. Most kids are not going to be professional soccer players, swimmers, gymnasts..etc our kids have a really long school day, shouldn’t they just get to come home and relax? Hang out with kids in the neighborhood and friends? Aren’t we just stressing ourselves out and our kids by signing them up for so many activities? I mean what’s the point? Or are we doing this for college applications? Our kids need unscheduled free time to decompress and be creative. Just my two cents..

Totally agree, that’s why I limit mine to one sport per season. They want to play and it’s just as much for social reason as for the sport, if not more so. They love being part of a team and all of the silly things that go along with that at a young age. I said no this year to travel soccer even though friends were already doing it. One rec sport per season is two hours of scheduled activity per week (1 practice and 1 game). That’s a lot of unscheduled free time even with a dance class here and there. SACC is a daily play date with friends.

[Anonymous]

Damn I don't feel so bad now ? DD doing travel soccer 2x practice per wk with Sunday games and piano 1x wk lesson and recitals once a month. First grade she was doing 3x practices weekly and 2 games with rec and he academy soccer and piano once a wk. she wanted all this it was too much for me!!

[Anonymous]

I don’t quite get why kids have to do so many activities. Most kids are not going to be professional soccer players, swimmers, gymnasts..etc our kids have a really long school day, shouldn’t they just get to come home and relax? Hang out with kids in the neighborhood and friends? Aren’t we just stressing ourselves out and our kids by signing them up for so many activities? I mean what’s the point? Or are we doing this for college applications? Our kids need unscheduled free time to decompress and be creative. Just my two cents..

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Athletics are a part of my life as an adult even though I'm not a professional athlete. I love to play the piano sometimes - for fun - even though I'm not a professional musician. I don't use calculus - ever - but I'm glad I learned it (kind of). That doesn't mean people should go overboard, but learning different skills and participating in activities is enriching. Also, as a total side benefit, we have made lots of friends - as adults - through my kids' activities. We moved to a new town as my oldest started kindergarten and had very few friends until he started baseball. If you have to sit on a sideline for two hours every Saturday with people, you're going to chat. It's been a great way to be a part of our community.

[oraswan]

Thank you for sharing. I was interested to read about your activities. My child likes the cartoon "Up", so he is very happy that he recently joined the boy scouts club, where he performs various tasks to get badges. It is very exciting and I am very glad that this club is in my child's life. My youngest child goes to kindergarten and is passionate about drawing. But unfortunately he has difficulties learning spelling and counting. So I found these worksheets that should help him overcome these difficulties. He really enjoys doing these tasks and I hope that we are on the right track.

[Anonymous]

One. He's on a travel hockey team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t quite get why kids have to do so many activities. Most kids are not going to be professional soccer players, swimmers, gymnasts..etc our kids have a really long school day, shouldn’t they just get to come home and relax? Hang out with kids in the neighborhood and friends? Aren’t we just stressing ourselves out and our kids by signing them up for so many activities? I mean what’s the point? Or are we doing this for college applications? Our kids need unscheduled free time to decompress and be creative. Just my two cents..

The point of playing a sport is NOT to become a professional. It is to have fun, do something new, keep fit, work toward a goal, make friends, learn to be part of a team—if you don’t think any of that is a good reason, then don’t do it, but, don’t write off everyone else as a delusional parent, or I’ll stereotype you and say you won’t enroll your kid in anything because you’re lazy and selfish.

Also, activities can foster creativity...ever heard of art classes and music lessons?

[Anonymous]

Girl scouts, swimming, and basketball.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Girl scouts, swimming, and basketball.

Hopefully...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Mine just wants to have play dates and is not interested in any activities unless a friend does it with him.

Ha, mine is like this too. But we tell ours to pick a sport, any sport. So that's 2x week of soccer. Swim lessons weekly. And one after-school activity a week. Still leaves the majority of days open for playdates.

But what do you do with a kid who doesn’t want to do any sport? Or as a matter of fact any activity?

Having friends in the activity is great motivation.

[Anonymous]

Usually-
Soccer, tennis. Fingers crossed.