Is this too many activities for a 6 year old?

[Anonymous]

Mondays- Karate
Wednesdays-Dance
Fridays-Parkour
Saturday-Soccer
Sunday- Flag Football

Child is very high energy!

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Yes. When is your kid going to play with friends or, more importantly, learn to entertain himself?

[Anonymous]

Yes. That is too much for parents to drive around too. Why not just have the weekend off? When school starts kid will be very tired.

[Anonymous]

It would have been too much for my DS. It would have been fine for DD. She went to aftercare and then did more than one activity in the evenings and on weekends. She was not tired at all in school. We had a struggle to get her to go to bed by 9:30 every night. DS was exhausted by 6:30/7. Most of those activities are only one hour so it comes down to how much you want to drive to after work, if you work, and balancing your schedule with other kids if there are any.

[Anonymous]

So for those saying they don’t have time to play with friends, DD would often go to soccer then hang out with friends and play on the playgrounds for a while after. These activities were very social for her in early elementary and helped burn the never ending energy. We didn’t have neighborhood kids for spontaneous play dates.

[Anonymous]

Can you give some context? What else does he do all day?

Is this his schedule heading into the Fall/start of Kindrtgsrten (or 1st grade)?

Are these activities classes at the local rec ctr that are like 50 min long ? So casual and nothing intense, right?

And it's not a long drive to any of these activities?

Does this stuff interest him? My very active 6 yr old would be bored with Art class for example.

How much 1:1 play do you do with him? On paper, it looks like you're avoiding playtime with him and outsourcing it all.

[Anonymous]

That's a lot. The thought of doing more than two planned activities with our six year old seems like a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you give some context? What else does he do all day?

Is this his schedule heading into the Fall/start of Kindrtgsrten (or 1st grade)?

Are these activities classes at the local rec ctr that are like 50 min long ? So casual and nothing intense, right?

And it's not a long drive to any of these activities?

Does this stuff interest him? My very active 6 yr old would be bored with Art class for example.

How much 1:1 play do you do with him? On paper, it looks like you're avoiding playtime with him and outsourcing it all.

He will be in first grade this year. He starts at 9 and ends at 3:30 and will not be in aftercare. These are all private classes 45min to one hour long. Maximum fifteen minute drive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. When is your kid going to play with friends or, more importantly, learn to entertain himself?

The other 5 hours in the evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. When is your kid going to play with friends or, more importantly, learn to entertain himself?

The other 5 hours in the evening.

And no down time then?

School will be exhausting and these daily activities will be too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. When is your kid going to play with friends or, more importantly, learn to entertain himself?

This. When I hear a child is “high energy” and in too many activities, I assume the child has no clue how to entertain themselves, the parents are annoyed by child and can’t be bothered to interact with him/her and just want to feel less guilty when child spends the rest of their time on screens.

[Anonymous]

Wow. That is a lot. At that age, our kids did only 1 sport. Played with neighborhood kids the rest of the days.

Is your child an only, or no kids in neighborhood? If that's the case, I understand all the activities.

As an aside, kids experience burn out, too. They need downtime the same as we do. Sometimes its good to have them learn to entertain themselves and use their imagination. Many studies and articles written on the value of child-led play and creative time.

[Anonymous]

Seems like a lot. Plus don’t some of those go more than one day? For example, my 6yr old DD has soccer practice Thursdays, but then games on Saturday’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. That is a lot. At that age, our kids did only 1 sport. Played with neighborhood kids the rest of the days.

Is your child an only, or no kids in neighborhood? If that's the case, I understand all the activities.

As an aside, kids experience burn out, too. They need downtime the same as we do. Sometimes its good to have them learn to entertain themselves and use their imagination. Many studies and articles written on the value of child-led play and creative time.

My kid is an only. We moved to a great neighborhood but...there are no kids! I know they are around, but they seem to pull into the garage and we never see them. Hoping that the school year presents the opportunity to make some neighborhood friends. As for playdates, we always seem to have 1-2 on the weekends. The activity is just an hour...there are 23 more hours to fill on each day of the weekend. After soccer we normally go the playground and meet friends there. The only 2x week thing is flag football but for K-1 league, the practice an the game are both on Sunday, for a total of one hour of activity. We don't do anything religious, so there's no conflict.