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[quote=Anonymous]OP, it sounds like your kids are involved in two extra school activities each. Is there a way to car pool with someone for some of the kids? You might need to ask them what they want to do ore, a sport or Scouts. I would cut the sport before Scouts, but that is me.

I don’t know if mine is a sports kid. He enjoys playing baseball and basketball. He asks to play both those sports. He likes tennis and will take lessons when baseball and basketball are not options. He loves hiking and camping. He has been having a blast with Cub Scouts. Hiking, camping, playing games with his friends, the occassional crafty thing, lockins at the museum.

We keep him plenty busy and active but I don’t think that he has to play a sport 3-5 times a week right now, I don’t think he is that interested. But he loves baseball practice and games.

There are many positives to sports but I don’t think that there are too many kids who HAVE to play a sport. They can run around the yard or neighborhood, ride bikes and do a ton of different things to epxpend energy. A younger kid does not HAVE to do travel sports. I get it when you hit sixth grade, there are kids that outgrow the competition, but before then strikes me as a way to get parents to pay extra money for their kid to play a sport.

I think you could easily say that the kids HAVE to be active, and you can accomplish that without sports practice and games 3-5 times a week for a kid in elementary school.  Amd if they really want to play more baseball, get them a wiffle ball and bat so they can play in the yard. That is what we did as kids, we played wiffle ball or tennis ball derby in the yards. When we got older, we biked to a near by field. Sports can be played in a more unorganized fashion. [/quote]

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