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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter just started middle school. She has one main sport that takes up about 2 hours per night - she loves it.  Once you factor in the driving time to and from, all there is time for is HW, and just barely. How do kids fit in other activities, like an after-school club or something like that?  I marvel at kids who are fitting in multiple sports and extracurriculars.  Trying to figure out how to make it all work.[/quote]

This is really simple - you can't do an activity that meets for 2 hours every day and expect to have time for something else.[/quote]

Exactly. I don't get why OP is confused.  A kid can do one very time consuming activity or multiple less time consuming activities.

My 8th grader plays one sport that has practices 2-3x a week for about 1.5 hours each time.
Attends 1 club that meets after school
Attends another club that is 1 Sat. a.m. per month
Goes to an art class 1 afternoon a week, and walks to that from our house
Plays in the school band with daily practice + 1 private lesson per week
Participates in Girl Scouts, usually 1-2 meetings per month
Goes to church youth group Sun evening

Monday - sport practice right after school
Tues - music lesson
Wed - art class after school
Thurs - evening sport practice
Fri - nothing
Sat - sports practice, or skips it if it's the monthly meeting of hiking club
Sun - 1-2x a month goes to Girl Scouts, evening church youth group (may skip it if GS activity goes into the evening)

She still has a lot of downtime and plenty of time to get homework done.  Also, she can only do a lot of different things because we're flexible and willing to make compromises about skipping some things, so she doesn't go to every GS activity since sometimes they conflict with a sport tournament or she might skip a sports practice because band has an extra afterschool practice.  I know friends have had issues with coaches who think their sport is the most important thing in the whole world and a practice can never be skipped.  We wouldn't last long in that kind of environment.[/quote]

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