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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t quite get why kids have to do so many activities. Most kids are not going to  be professional soccer players, swimmers, gymnasts..etc  our kids have a really long school day, shouldn’t they just get to come home and relax? Hang out with kids in the neighborhood and friends? Aren’t we just stressing ourselves out and our kids by signing them up for so many activities? I mean what’s the point? Or are we doing this for college applications? Our kids need unscheduled free time to decompress and be creative. Just my two cents..[/quote]

None of what you’ve mentioned has anything to do with why our kid plays a sport, instrument, or does Scouts.  There are lots of good qualities kids develop by playing a sport, or by learning a musical instrument, for example—teamwork, self-discipline, etc.
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sure but 7 is still pretty little. there's time![/quote]

My son enjoys his activities. He asks to do them. He would do soccer and baseball if we let him. And while there is still time, you can see a pretty stark difference in the kids who started playing blastball at 4 and the kid who is playing baseball for the first time at 7. I doubt DS is going to play on the high school team or anything along those lines but he loves playing. They start playing kid pitch at the age of 8, is that when you want your kid to be learning to bat or throw?

I get that there are different philosophies on parenting but I know that he enjoys what he is doing and tells us when he doesn’t like something. He has stead fastly declined playing an instrument and told us which camps he doesn’t want to do again.

This works for us. He is tired when he goes to bed but happy. He has four days a week with a more chill pace, his grades are excellent, and he has a good group of friends.

And there are parents whose kids are already playing travel soccer and baseball at this age. So we are not even the “hard core” families.

Your family might not be into these things but plenty of families are.  What the OP should take away is that she should do what fits for her family and that will make her child happy. [/quote]

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