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Too many activities

52 replies

Xantheticus · 06/10/2015 11:25

Trying to work out a balance of after school extracurricular activities. Interested in people's thoughts on whether this is too much for an energetic not very academic 9 year old boy:

Wednesday 1 hour karate

Thursday 30 min guitar then 1 hour karate
Friday 2 hrs athletics club (summer only)
Saturday 30 mins swimming lesson

Also wanting to add 30 min drum lesson. He is happy with everything now but I'm wondering if adding in the drum lesson will be too much.

Wondering how other people spread your activities through the week. If your DC do two instruments, how do you balance practice time?

I'm wondering if it's fair if one DC does two instruments when the other only does one. (Same activities but gymnastics instead of karate and keyboard instead of guitar).

OP posts:
absolutelynotfabulous · 06/10/2015 11:35

Sorry meant to add that I think instrument practice should be little and often (ie a bit every day (15 mins say)? every day.

absolutelynotfabulous · 06/10/2015 11:32

At that age dd was doing gym (one hour), football (Sunday, one hour), and piano (half an hour).

By age 10, she'd dropped them all and now does one extra-curricular thing which she loves (13 now).

Fwiw I think those activities are too much.

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