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[quote=Anonymous]DS is allowed to choose his activities. He does have to do one activity that requires movement 2-3 times a week. He chooses Cub Scouts, STEM Scouts, and baseball/soccer/basketball. He is allowed to choose from the list of extra school activities that the school sends home three times a year. He chooses coding, robotics, art, chess and the like. Why? Because he likes those activities. He doesn’t have to choose anything. He could choose to do no after school activities and that would be fine.

Does it make me happy that he enjoys STEM and chooses those activities? Yes. I love seeing him excited about something that exercises his brain and could be useful as an adult. That is why I like that he chooses sports that he enjoys, I hope that he will play them as an adult. They are good for socializing and staying in shape. Maybe he will meet his spouse playing a sport like his Dad and I did. I love that he enjoys Scouting, we hike and camp as a family so his enjoying a group that encourages hiking and camping and finding like minded families is great.

He also takes a 2 hour long math class on the weekends. He enjoys it and it challenges him. We enrolled him in the class after watching math this past year and looking at the math he was bringing home from school for the last 3 years. The math they are doing in school is easy for him. It was easy for him before we started the extra math classes. We want him to be challenged so we enrolled him in a math program that would challenge him. I was surprised to see how much he liked it. We also missed classes when other events were happening, like Scouting camping or fishing or a vacation.

We could have moved him to a Center school but we like the language immersion program he is in, it provides a different type of challenge.

I could careless how he is doing compared to your kid, I want him to be happy and grow into his potential. If he tells us he wants to drop out of Scouts or not do extra activities after school then fine. I am not going to stop him from doing things that he likes because other parents are worried that I am giving him an advantage or because other kids do not have the same options. My job is to parent my kid and help him grow. [/quote]

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