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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Option 2. Despite reports to the contrary, tweens and teens need you a lot. Not to mention activities I need to be around for, and also the stability of having someone home after they get home from school (or thereabouts) to sort of monitor the situation.[/quote]

Couldn't disagree more.  Most kids spend more and more time in extracurriculars and  with friends as they get older.

However, there are some sahs of older kids who feel they must constantly spread this myth to justify their decision.  And yes, I have older kids.  There were a lot more opportunities to spend quality time with them when they were younger.

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:roll: not all kids stay after school for a half hour and then home for the night.  Mine stay for a club here or there but they have practices/games/music lessons from 4pm on. We are out most nights of the week until 8ish.  The rare days we are free-we have three older kids-our house is the hang out house-I prefer to be there. Nice try though.  I think both are important times but for very different reasons.[/quote]

There is something called car pool.  You spend your time running around town because that is how you chose to spend your time, not because it is necessary.

And most kids I know do their sports, music, drama at school once on in middle school.  Yours have chosen a different and not common path.[/quote]

not really...they have better options than to hang out at the school. They do club sports, most of their games (away) are not at the MS, or high school-I have both.  Two of them perform with a local theater, and music lessons are all over the place. One after school, another at 8 pm-HS kid and another at 4:30 but at home.  Once again, not everyone has to make the same choices.  Carpool does not always work out.   I choose to take care of my own family not pawn them onto others.[/quote]

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