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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With rising K, during year she has six hours of language classes on weekends, two hours of swim lessons weekly, and she is in a religious afterschool program twice a week. In the summer, she does a pre-swim team. We take her to art and gymnastics parents night out occasionally, but nothing else. She wants to do dance, but there is no time/budget. We explain that she can swim at an advanced level for her age while her friends who dance don't swim and that if she wanted to dance she would need to stop swimming. I don't know how people fit everything in and have full-time jobs. We had an au pair when she was younger, so we could consider for the driving, but that seems excessive. [/quote]

Why is your kid in six hours of language? You could cut down to four and have time for dance. Your daughter needs more activities than just swim and cultural classes.[/quote]

Because we have made the calculation that supporting trilingualism is our core goal until adolescence (some of this six hours is a music class) for family reasons. We prioritize swimming because it is a group sport that encourages body positivity, and she is a talented swimmer for her age, so she likes to do it, sometimes she cries when she has to leave the pool.

I was in dance as a kid and there is a lot of focus on having the right body type which encourages eating disorders in girls. Kid has also been in a public immersion school since 3 (DC), so she has a very full life of activities, I feel like you have to pick what's important as a family. If it's eating together for dinner, that cuts down on your ability for events during the week, if it's language, those are usually weekend day programs. If it's religious observance, that can knock out one or more days of the weekend. For us, it's dinner together and an early bedtime on school nights. [/quote]

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