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[quote=Anonymous]I'm having the same problem with my 6 year old that things feel like they are ramping up and maybe getting to too many activities. This does sound like kind of a lot, but it probably depends on if your child is also in aftercare most days because that is a lot of activity in itself and in my opinion counts. I would probably do tennis another season, personally. If he's interested, that's great - he can do another season of it soon. I think why kids are starting to get more overscheduled these days is because there is a feeling now that things need to be year round. It used to be at these younger ages you'd do soccer one season a year, max two. Then other sports different seasons.

So I'm trying to stick with this "season" approach as much as I can because i also heard it isn't good for kids bodies to be doing one sport too much at this young age. So we did swimming this summer and I was tempted to keep it going kind of like the tennis, but instead I'll wait and maybe we'll do some lessons in spring to get back in the groove for summer.

It is tough op, it sounds reasonable and I get that piano isn't something you start and stop. I would just take a look at home and family downtime, do you feel like you would still have ample time for that and if so then you are ok.

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