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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, 4-4:30 unwind, 4:30-6:30 homework, 6:30-7-ish eat, 7-8 shower, practice instrument, practice Hebrew (preparing for bar mitzvah) then get in bed. Maybe reads 30-40 minutes somewhere in there...not a lot of extra time and that's if we get home by 4. [/quote]

All of those things are great, but they don't really fit with what you posted which was that you can barely fit in an hour of homework, dinner and a bath.  It sounds like you're fitting in a couple hours of homework, plus almost another hour of work that's important to you (Hebrew, instrument), and an hour of downtime, some of which is spent reading.  Which answers the OP's question of what does your child do when they aren't watching TV.[/quote]

I said that we were barely fitting it in because the schedule above (and we are hardly that regimented) is *if* we get home at 4. School isn't even out til 3:15, so with sports, errands, Hebrew School I would say that the afternoon usually starts later than that and then it is a crunch to fit in homework, etc.

I guess you are right that this is an answer to what we do instead of watch TV, but I was responding to people who were saying that their kids go out and play, draw, etc. as if they have hours to fill with activities. I was just surprised because it feels like most days we are struggling to fit in responsibilities, some days of course we have extra time but mostly we don't. Granted my kids go to bed relatively early (in bed by 8:30).

As for the shower comment, I said that in an hour it's shower, instrument and Hebrew. [/quote]

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