Are you making your children tired with all these activities????

My dss (6 and 4) do tennis on Wednesday after school. While this is OK for ds1, ds2 can't really handle it so from Jan they will be going on Saturday mornings. They have swimming on Sunday mornings. Ds1 ws doing football after school on Fridays but I have not signed him up for this over the winter.

They are very happy to come home from school and play with each other. I think once ds2 gets into Year 1 he will be more ready to do after-school activities. Their only homework on weekdays is reading and that doesn't take long.

OK. DS will be 9 next week. He does a lot of after school activities but it is totally his choice. It's all sport.
Monday is Tennis followed by cricket training
Tuesday is Swimming (I make him do that though, it is important).
Wednesday is Cricket match
Thursday is FREE.
Friday is Tennis.
In the winter he did Tennis on Mondays, swimming AND soccer on Tuesdays, nothing on Wednesdays, Soccer on Thursdays and Tennis on Fridays. Then a Soccer match on Sunday mornings.
He loves it, it keeps him fit. He is very good at sport and his tennis coach asked us to put him in for two lessons a week as he wants him to join a competition squad circuit in the new year.
If I told DS he couldn't do it he would be DEVASTATED.
He goes to bed between 8 and 8.30pm and no matter what he does, he is never asleep before 9pm.
He does 20 minutes homework a night (usually when we come in after school before going to the activity).
He thrives on it all.
However, if he didn't want to do it I wouldn't make him do it. At all.

I help run an after school activity for children and around 90% of parents in the 4-7 year old catagory drop them off in a state of hperactivity saying "please tire them out!".

My DD does loads but she is 9, did do dancing and other stuff when 6. But she managed fine and doesn't have to be up too early. Always kept the weekends free though.

They can get so much out of actvities, but try one thing first and see hows she manages.

depends on the child, some need them and some don't.

some of us may be trying to tire our children out.... they sleep better or are just nicer humans for having had a good run around and burnt off some energy.

Ds is 5 and has football on a Monday 4-5, swimming on a friday 6-6.30pm and a church play date thingy at someone's house alternate Thursdays after school, then church on Sundays. That's enough for us and suits us well for now. I like having empty Saturdays and my ds is in bed at 7pm every night and as soon after that as possible on a Friday after swimming.

Ds is in reception. I plan on him starting swimming lessons again after school one day, and doing football for an hour on a sat morning.

DD who is two will be doing swimming during the day and ballet after school one day.

Ds did many many activities at dds age, she's been quite deprived!

my dd would be too tired she is 6. I haven't pushed her into anything. I have asked her if she wishes to have a go at this and that, but she really doesn't feel like it, is the impression i get.
I feel she integrates well in school and out of school, and her head seems to be buzzing enough. It probably depends on the child, as has been said.

Think it depends on the child to some extent. At 6 my dd did piano, gym, swimming and french club without any problems...but she had very little homework...and was in bed at 7.30. She couldn't have done all that with homework every night as well.

We haven't done many activities with our DCs. My 6 year old right now does Rainbows (1 hr per week) and we go to church as a family, so she does Sunday School.

I know lots of families who do music lessons, ballet, swimming, rainbows/brownies. It really does seem exhausting.