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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids sometimes did the MCPS after school activities and took the activity bus, but I didn't require it.  On days when they had no activities, they would come home.  They would have to call me with their plan for the rest of the evening - what they planned to do, with whom, when homework would get done, etc.  I did allow them to go out into the neighborhood and hang out with other kids and go to kids' houses where parents were home.  But, I didn't typically allow kids to come to our house if we weren't home.

I didn't require my kids to do their homework right after school.  They spent all day inside and needed a break to be outside and goofing around.  for most of the school year, it gets dark early so their only outside time is right after school.

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Pretty similar for our family as well. I encouraged after school activities, and most of my kids did a few. Any day they didn't have an activity to go to, I just required a voicemail/email/text saying what they planned to do after school. As long as they kept me updated so I knew what they were up to, they could go pretty much anywhere they were normally allowed to be, including friends' houses or most places around town. As long as they'd been to the location or done the activity at least once before with our knowledge, the default was that they had permission to do whatever they planned unless I objected upon being notified. My one required deadline for homework was: If I need to buy anything for you to accomplish tonight's homework, or have cash to give you for tomorrow, notify me by 4PM. Other than that, I didn't require them to do homework at a set time as long as their homework was generally getting done and grades met our standards. If grades were slipping, they would be required to have the homework done by a certain time (or to have been working steadily since getting home) so we could check it/help with it after dinner.  We only allowed friends to come over to our home when parents were not home if we approved of the friend and we had previously spoken to their parents and knew the parents were okay with there being no adult present after school.[/quote]

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