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[quote=Anonymous]I'm 42 and did tons of activities and lots of camp as a kid.  I remember loving it!  In addition to enjoying the activities and eventually excelling at several, I also made different circles of friends -- which was such a blessing come late elementary and especially middle school.  Don't let your kids put their friend eggs all in the school-group basket, so to speak. (Especially important for girls!)

My 9 and 5 year olds similarly do a lot of activities and camp, and they thrive on it.  They are both extremely social and pretty high energy.  Like I did, they are forming multiple groups of friends.  We still have family dinners several times a week and they also have plenty of down time and play dates.  They wake up happy before their alarms on school days... Our down time doesn't devolve into an ipad fest, but past a certain point the returns on downtime are diminishing.

OP, the lower elementary years are actually a good time to try lots of things.  The time commitment for each activity is usually minimal at that age/level, the kids don't yet have a bunch of homework, and the activities usually meet early in the afternoon so you can still have dinner as a family, down time, and reasonable bedtime.  And that's how they figure out what they enjoy.

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