How Many Clubs do your children do?

Mine do 2 each, that's plenty imo.
Apart from the expense, children need unstructured time just as much as adults do.

my son (year 4) does 4 sports plus non-sports clubs 2 nights a week. It’s probably too much tbh but he doesn’t want to drop any.
i grew up in a country where after school you go to extra curricular classes for hours every night and kids just want to sleep all the time

My kids all do one club, each does a different martial art. So between them and DH and I we have a club on every day except saturday.

I've already posted what DS does, but just here to wow at some schools' offerings! Really envious, ours has stopped offering anything but a couple of basic sports after school (football, gymnastics, run by external company). DS would love a Lego club at lunchtime. Are these school ones free?

I have a 9 year old who loves clubs. She does: Swimming, Tennis, Drama, German, cubs, Football and Piano. Yes it's a lot but she enjoys them all. She'll cut back slightly next year as she'll need to start preparing for the 11plus examination.

None. I'm a working lone parent and there just isn't the money for after school clubs. I also think children need downtime after school and don't see the need for so many extra activities, so even if I did have money for these things I'd only consider it if it was something they were really interested in.

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Eldest does one club twice a week and youngest does 3. More than enough and more than enough expense! I agree with poster above that as a child I never did any clubs apart from a school club. There wasn’t the expectation of it all back then.

At primary age it was just swimming, beavers/ cubs.

My 15yr old now does martial arts, army cadets with school and police cadets. Plus duke of Edinburgh and some parkruns. He still manages to spend a considerable amount of time fannying around on fortnite. It's only martial arts I have to drive him to as we live in the centre of town. Next years he'll have to stagger which ones to miss every week as he'll have gcses.

My 7 year old does brownies, swimming, horse riding and dance. I think it's too much but she's not ready to quit anything yet.. hoping she loses interest in riding soon...

My six almost seven year old does two, ballet and rugby.

"I hate all this pressure and expectation nowadays that your kids should be doing this club and that club its an awful lot of pressure on parents and kids."

But life is a lot of pressure so the sooner my kid learns and adapts to it, the better.
If they study a hard degree at uni in the future (law, medicine, maths) it will be hard... but it won't be new to them.

I had to move countries at 15yo with a completely new language to me. I think I managed well and got good GCSEs because I was used to tough extra curricular activities so I was used to pressure and challenges.

@BDeyes

Mine does five at age 6. It’s too many really and I’m hoping to drop one or two but they get so much out of each.

1 club free at DS school and swimming once a week what I pay. Its enough as we have breakfast club 4x a week so weekdays we are busy.

DD age 3 goes to dance class once a week. Would like to take her to swimming lessons too. Personally it's enough for her, sometimes a struggle to get her to class but she loves it when she's there.

My ds would hate to do any clubs after school as he wants to relax when he gets home, he is only young I think too many kids go to clubs after school when they don't want.

I used to limit it to 2 so that my childminder wasn't stuck trailing around and younger children weren't trapped in the car.my youngest did 3 as he was on his own a lot more and didn't have a sibling of similar age to play with after school.

3 kids, 2 parents

They go out to swimming, a sport, music and girlguiding each week. The eldest has tutoring from home

One does music class and fencing class.

Another does music class and practices judo.

Younger two go to music class. Littlest goes to gymnastics class.

Two classes a week is ample. They need time to play with their friends too.

@snowgirl1

That’s more clubs than days of the week!! Seems mad

DS does scouts, piano and swimming. He also has an hour with out of school tutor once a week.
DD does Brownies, piano, pony club/riding, ballet, football and swimming. She recently gave up gymnastics much to my great relief!
I think it sounds like you’re doing a great job OP. Despite the fact that my DC do quite a few activities I don’t think it’s essential. In our case it’s pushed by DD because that’s the kind of person she is, my DS is much more laid back and could take it or leave it. She wants to take up ice skating and athletics too!! I’ve said a firm ‘no’ for now! I have a husband but he works long hours so all the ferrying back and forth is left to me. It’s exhausting!

DD10 does chess and netball club in school; and out of school does art club, clarinet, cubs, band, tennis x 2, swimming, aikido. It's a lot but they're all clubs she wants to do.

mine also do none as they don't want too. but mine do play out with the neighbourhood children quite a lot so are happy and occupied doing exactly what they want just as I did as a child. I'm mid 40s and don't remember all these clubs being a thing when I was a kid. I hate all this pressure and expectation nowadays that your kids should be doing this club and that club its an awful lot of pressure on parents and kids.

My little girl is 4 and in Reception: she does ballet one night and swimming on Saturday morning. My 18 month old just does the swimming lesson on Saturday after my daughter.

DS1 (9) does cricket, Cubs and swimming outside of school (three other lunchtime clubs and a musical instrument in school).

DS2 (6) does cricket, Beavers and swimming and that’s plenty to my mind.