Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why are you "scheduling d*mn play dates"? If your kids are so amazing, aren't they responsible enough to knock on a few doors around the neighborhood and invite people over, or ride their bike to the playground and make new friends there?
Wait, I thought kids were supposed to be bored--but you're social engineering play dates? Which is it?
Dumb response.
Because we have friends that aren't walkable from our home? Because my 6 and 9-year-old kids don't have phones and can't orchestrate playdates with friends who live a few miles away? Because they have friends that they don't see every day at school? Because the few friends who are walkable are overscheduled? Because there are very few kids who live nearby who line up in terms of the right age/gender breakdown that my kids actually WANT to play with? Because there is only so long you can play with your sibling before you start fighting with each other?
Sometimes it's fun to be bored with friends. That's when the creative magic happens. We want them to be social. It's just finding the time with certain friends that seems impossible.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ops kids are unathletic losers
What a horrible thing to say. Maybe ops kids don't like sports. Op is giving her kids a chance to be kids without being always busy.
OP here.
Wow, you're an @$$. My kids love sports and are very athletic. The big difference is that it is in one sport per season, not 3 like some of their friends.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ops kids are unathletic losers
What a horrible thing to say. Maybe ops kids don't like sports. Op is giving her kids a chance to be kids without being always busy.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I partly blame the culture around here -it’s hard to do any sports in a chill way regardless of age. If your kid wants to swim, they are either only swimming in the summer or they are swimming at least 3 days a week year round. And if you don’t start early enough you are “behind” so everyone wants to let their kids try a couple things out.
My oldest asks to do activities because that’s where her friends are. They aren’t available if she goes and knocks on their door. We allow less than a lot of families (my daughter is really only doing dance and Girl Scouts my son is only doing soccer and we will see if it bites us in the a*s later). It’s a balance
Why not let them do the activities they want to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I partly blame the culture around here -it’s hard to do any sports in a chill way regardless of age. If your kid wants to swim, they are either only swimming in the summer or they are swimming at least 3 days a week year round. And if you don’t start early enough you are “behind” so everyone wants to let their kids try a couple things out.
My oldest asks to do activities because that’s where her friends are. They aren’t available if she goes and knocks on their door. We allow less than a lot of families (my daughter is really only doing dance and Girl Scouts my son is only doing soccer and we will see if it bites us in the a*s later). It’s a balance
Why not let them do the activities they want to?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I partly blame the culture around here -it’s hard to do any sports in a chill way regardless of age. If your kid wants to swim, they are either only swimming in the summer or they are swimming at least 3 days a week year round. And if you don’t start early enough you are “behind” so everyone wants to let their kids try a couple things out.
My oldest asks to do activities because that’s where her friends are. They aren’t available if she goes and knocks on their door. We allow less than a lot of families (my daughter is really only doing dance and Girl Scouts my son is only doing soccer and we will see if it bites us in the a*s later). It’s a balance
Why not let them do the activities they want to?
Anonymous wrote:I’m raising the kid I was given and the kid I was given wants to be active in many sports.
He’s happy and thriving and all his activities are worth it even if it makes me tired.
Anonymous wrote:I partly blame the culture around here -it’s hard to do any sports in a chill way regardless of age. If your kid wants to swim, they are either only swimming in the summer or they are swimming at least 3 days a week year round. And if you don’t start early enough you are “behind” so everyone wants to let their kids try a couple things out.
My oldest asks to do activities because that’s where her friends are. They aren’t available if she goes and knocks on their door. We allow less than a lot of families (my daughter is really only doing dance and Girl Scouts my son is only doing soccer and we will see if it bites us in the a*s later). It’s a balance
Anonymous wrote:Why are you "scheduling d*mn play dates"? If your kids are so amazing, aren't they responsible enough to knock on a few doors around the neighborhood and invite people over, or ride their bike to the playground and make new friends there?
Wait, I thought kids were supposed to be bored--but you're social engineering play dates? Which is it?