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[quote=Anonymous]Our kids are in rec sports and the rule is you get to do one sport and one non-sport activity at a time. We bend it a little for extra classes and clinics and stuff, but generally stick to it. With 3 kids it still gets to be a lot (and before people go "You knew that before you had 3 kids!" yes, we did and no, we don't expect people to shuttle our kids everywhere for us since we have 3).

That said, I know a family who almost completely opted out of the grind - way more than we did. Kids really didn't do non-school extracurriculars. Their oldest just graduated high school with all sorts of honors and is going to W&M in the honors program there. They did all sorts of cool things as a family and their kids developed really diverse and unique interests. Instead of the activities grind they just did things they liked as a family.

I often wonder if our family would be happier doing that, or if we [i]like[/i] our activities the way they are. My kids really enjoy their sports and instruments the way they have them. Do they occasionally wish we could say, see more museums or state parks on the weekends? A bit - but not enough that I think they'd want to entirely opt out of their schedule.

Where we are located in our neighborhood makes free-ranging it kind of hard. We just don't have enough kids close enough.[/quote]

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