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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I partly blame the culture around here -it’s hard to do any sports in a chill way regardless of age. If your kid wants to swim, they are either only swimming in the summer or they are swimming at least 3 days a week year round. And if you don’t start early enough you are “behind” so everyone wants to let their kids try a couple things out.

My oldest asks to do activities because that’s where her friends are. They aren’t available if she goes and knocks on their door. We allow less than a lot of families (my daughter is really only doing dance and Girl Scouts my son is only doing soccer and we will see if it bites us in the a*s later). It’s a balance [/quote]

Why not let them do the activities they want to?[/quote]

I will take my child's desires into account, but I won't let them do any activities that they want. Things like finances and time commitment are taken into consideration first. I also will never overschedule my kids/teens. My kids are welcome to overschedule themselves in high school when they can drive [/quote]

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