How Many Clubs do your children do?

DS1 (9yo) Cubs, cricket, Saber combat and school running club
DS2 (7yo) Beavers and Saber combat

Dance
Brownies
Swimming
Music lessons

During school/Wrap around:

Gym
Choir
Art

DD is 8.

Aged 3 and 5 and both do 3 activities each plus a charity-led cultural activity.
Fortunately both have specialist teachers for activities at school and nursery (drama, sports, yoga, languages etc) otherwise would add Stagecoach/drama type activity in.
I work PT and facilitate all the activities

DS1 - football, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, youth club, school clubs, music clubs, D of E.
DD - Ballet, swimming, jazz, cheer, gymnastics, youth club, Rainbows, Brownies and Guides just starting D of E
DD2 - swimming, cheer, ballet, gymnastics, Rainbows.

It takes a lot of juggling with two FT working parents but we want all 3DC to have the opportunities we did not have growing up. So we have prioritised clubs.

DD8 does swimming lessons and Brownies, and she used to go to Rainbows.

DS3 goes to toddler group once a week on his day off from preschool, and I'm putting him in swimming lessons when he starts school in Sept.

Swimming with school and karate. DD has enough to do with school and playing without adding on more planned activities.

Ds9 does football, swimming, boxing and cricket. He will be dropping swimming once he’s passed all his levels and I know he can competently swim. Cricket is summer only.
dd6 does swimming and netball. She’ll do all stars cricket for 8 weeks this summer. She wants to do drama too but can’t fit it in so shell have to wait for a bit.

DS 13 does scouts and swimming (2j
DD9 does Cubs, running, football, swimming (4)

DS9 does swimming, scouts and martial arts
DS7 does swimming, scouts, and school science club - we want to find a sporty activity for him to do too but he’s not been enthused by any yet!

Swimming lesson
football (low-key skills session)
guitar (zoom at home)
cubs

this feels enough most of the year. We do blocks of 4/6 weeks ski lessons once or twice a year but couldn’t keep that up every week.

Reception kid does swimming and school football

3.5 year old doesn’t do any

DD8 is in an elite academy for a sport and trains a few times a week, she also has Brownies and Swimming
DD6 does the same sport as DD but is not in the academy though he has potential. He also has swimming and wants to do football which I'm more than happy for him to do.

6 year old does 4 because she really needs exercise to limit the craziness. She does gymnastics, athletics, tennis and violin. School isn't a challenge for her for various reasons. 3 year old does gymnastics, multisport and music. Helps reduce the crazy and he's in half days at nursery. He also loves being upside down...

Swimming, gymnastics and music
I don't think there is a need to do more than that unless they particularly excel at something and there are specialist holiday clubs for everything else

My 5&6 year old so 4 each. (Music club, swimming,scouts and football).
Single income slightly above minimum wage family. I'd love for them to do 1 or 2 more but unaffordable.

Guides and horse riding twice a week, used to do swimming as well but dropped it when they finished the stages. Still try to go at least every couple of weeks but not structured.

We do a lot of sports/activities, but 3 of my 4 children have ADHD and their exercise/energy/stimulation needs are intense. If they aren’t kept properly active (and I don’t mean riding a bike around with some friends), then that excess energy/movement can become destructive. My 7yr old DS can go from school to soccer training to swimming 1km at squad and still have excess energy. 9yr old DD is similar.
It is definitely challenging to manage with both DH and I working.

mine are older now but both did swimming, beavers/brownies and sports when they were little.

Now as teenagers one does cricket a couple of times a week and drum lessons. The other does ballet and tap with two lessons a week sometimes three.

I always think it’s as big a commitment for the parents. Especially when I’m driving ds an hour for his cricket game tomorrow after work.

3 sessions a week: 'indoor games', scouts, and swimming
I take him to all of them, and I wfh part time.

The swimming we feel is less a club than an essential life skill (not yet Stage 5) and we couldn't afford it a few years ago... then the pandemic hit when we could. Indoor games costs £1 a session. Scouts to help our child with confidence, and awareness of community/responsibility.

He's an only child, so we prioritise these clubs as his time with peers and away from us.

My primary age kids had between 4 and 6 each last year but we cut it back as was too expensive and they didn't have enough downtime. I work full time so all bar 2 of these are done at the school either before or after so are effectively after-school club replacement. They do a couple at the weekend away from school like swimming. They really want to do cubs / scouts but I can't commit to being able to get them there each week after school.

None - DS is 6 and hasn't asked to do any so I'm just going to enjoy it while I can! That said DSD didn't do any clubs as she went to breakfast and after school club from 7 am to 6 pm and she's turned out fine. She doesn't seem to have suffered in any way from not doing clubs (she's at uni now).

DS 8 does four - Tennis, karate, bouldering and swimming. It's on the border of being to much but he has ADHD so the more exercise the better!

My nephews do three activities on Saturday alone, way too much poor things, they get no downtime.

DS is 6 and does Beavers, swimming lesson and the village craft club.

DD (4) does swimming once and martial arts twice a week. This is more than enough for her at the moment :)

DS1 does ballet three times a week and swimming lessons on a Saturday morning, he’s 8
DS2 ballet once a week and swimming lessons on a Saturday morning, he’s 4