Reply to What does after school look like for your middle school kid?

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "What does after school look like for your middle school kid?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I have a similar personality child who also just started middle school.  I told him he can only sign up for two after school activities this fall, which I think is plenty, but also I have learned with him it is better for him to be under-scheduled than over-scheduled because he is a kid who needs down time.  So he comes home from school, has a snack, then either rides his bike, shoots baskets with a friend, or just reads/chills - on the days he has an after school activity, he won't have as much time for the bike riding/chilling but I figure he'll still need to have a snack/burn off steam for 1/2 hr or so before starting HW.  He starts HW around 5 (so probably more like 5:30 on activity days) and hopefully is done before dinner (around 7). After dinner, he practices his instrument (which is a change for him - in elementary school he used to be able to finish HW and practice instrument before dinner but his HW load is greater now), then we spend a few minutes going over his HW (mainly I am just confirming he did it), and I guess if he has any more HW to do he will do it then.  The rest of the night is his to play with his sibs, or play a video game, or whatever until bed.  His bedtime has shifted to about 9:30pm, which is later than last year but he seems to be handling it fine so far.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics