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[quote=Anonymous]are they in aftercare?  I would hsve a hard time doing after school activities unles they were aftercare related.

My kids aren't, and so there are a few days we have after school (but not evening) activities.  Somedays they just play, but they both like sports so one has soccer all school year, and tball in the spring.  The other will start music lessons.  The older one has religious education, too.  They both have gymnastics Sat morning.

I struggle with the balance between overscheduled vs not taking advantage of fun opportunities.

If your kids want to do any sports, for example, you need some outside activity.  PE class at school isn't enough.  So I think it depends on how you approach it - what types of enrichment do you want them to have, and what types of things are there interested in?

I do think we push activities at an earlier and earlier age, and there is a level that is too much.  Some unstructured time is good.

But I want my kids to be able to explore and do fun things until they decide what is realyl for them.  I'd love to give my daughter horse riding lessons, though I recognize that's impractical (too much money/time for the long term).  We were jsut talking about tennis, for example.  We need to sign up for swimming, becaue I think that's a skill set they absolutely need to have.

I also think kids should learn some level of music, so we'll sign up for that eventually.  But I do think we verge into too much.  Right now they each have two activities during the week, plus one on Sat.  [/quote]

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