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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate weekend classes or practices and try very hard to avoid them. We are so busy all week and down time is important. A perfect Saturday for is Lounging in pjs, watching some cartoons, making pancakes and going for a long walk that includes the playground and the library.

But DD is 7 now and it's getting harder and harder.[b] If she wants to do an activity with Saturday classes or practices I let her.[/b] But we don't seek them out. [/quote]

Don't you want her to play a sport or do some type of activity? If she doesn't start now, how will she make the team when it actually does get competitive and they can't keep everyone who wants to play?[/quote]

She has done and does lots of activities, including swimming, capoeira, yoga, karate, soccer and ballet.  We have a tennis camp slated for August.  We let her explore what interests her without projecting our ambitions on her.  I've simply made an effort to avoid Saturday's in the service of preserving valuable free time.  [/quote]

New Poster. Then don't act like some holier than thou person who thinks Saturday soccer is beneath them! You ARe a soccer etc. mom, your kid just does it on a different day. Eyeroll.[/quote]

Some of you are just crazy. I don't think anything is beneath me. We HAVE done Saturday activities, as clearly stated in my original post including ... soccer, twice.  Once she liked it.  Second time she didn't so we didn't sign up again. If she wants to revisit that is fine with us.  When she expresses an interest in something we let her try it.  But if there is a weekday option that is what we choose.

As I also said in my first post, it's harder as she gets older.  We don't say no because it's on a Saturday. [/quote]

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