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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the people posting here about having ONE activity. It doesn't line up with people saying:

-Elementary boys needs to be in sports to keep friends and be involved
-Everyone needs swim lessons for safety! 
-We are supplementing Beast Academy / Russian Math / Mathnasium, aren't you?

If you have your kid in ONE activity, what is it? And when do you plan to encourage more or give permission for additional activities? [/quote]

Dcum doesn’t always represent actual reality. I don’t know anyone yet in the early elementary grades of my son’s friends in APS that is supplementing with the things you mention. Maybe it exists but not in the parents I chat with.

We do swim team in the summer to build swimming skills. We hire a college sitter in the summer so we can do this. To me it’s the most efficient way to get that in and truly have a kid who is very safe in the water. It isn’t necessary to do it year round from 3-7, I was a competitive swimmer as a kid/teen and never did year round swim til older grades. If my kid continues to be super interested in swimming in upper elementary grades then at that point he may choose to do some winter swim.

We do one sport a season - spring baseball, summer swim, fall soccer, and next year basketball in the winter for the first time. Sometimes we fit karate in because my kid likes it but only because it is offered as an after school activity once a week. We specifically didn’t sign him up for the 2 day a week evening karate for all the reasons I shared.

Instruments - well consider integrating in in later elementary if kids express interest. But a 30 min piano lesson a week is what I’m talking. Learning to read music is a great skill but they don’t need to learn it by 7-8.

If there are other things they express interest in, we do 3-4 weeks of camps where they can try out new sports, things like pottery, whatever! But I don’t integrate it in to our weekly schedule unless they start showing a lot of interest.

It’s hard, I have to think hard about things when they come through “oh he would love that!” But they don’t actually need to do every single thing. Even if they would enjoy it! There are lots of things in life I would ENJOY but I also build my life to be balanced with time for downtime, considering expense, time etc in how much I take on. I weigh the same things for them. [/quote]

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