Can you tell me about your evenings with junior only children?

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We seem to have completely fallen out of any meaningful structure. Neither of us can seem to find interesting stuff to do. Can I have some ideas?

What does your after school time look like?

A little bump just in case ...

By juniors do you mean aged 7-11? Usually do a club after school, get home about 5.30, watch TV for 30 minutes, dinner at 6, then reading/homework, have a shower by which point it’s about 7.30 and she can do whatever for an hour before bed at 8.30. There’s a structure I suppose but we don’t really do anything interesting, that’s too much pressure midweek!!

Hi
Ours do sports after school some days, and guitar lessons, and a mature dramatics. We're looking to get our youngest into cricket all stars (for age 6-7) next year. So we take turns collecting around our flexible working jobs.

At home they chill out watching a bit of tv, colouring or playing Lego etc until I dinner around 5pm, then at around 6pm (dinner takes ages! And we chat...) the wife and I take turns bathing them nightly and read together then sleep by 8pm. It's exhausting but quite well structured.

Weekends it's swimming, a lunch out (say pizza express) and then housework sat afternoon while kids play/ maybe have iPad time (only sat afternoon). Sunday we all go out for the day....

Thanks so much, yeah I mean that 7-11 age. He just seems really bored with all his toys lately and it made me wonder if we're missing something better we could be doing.

My 7 yo has dance 3x a week.
She also goes out to play with her friends on the nights it's dry.
Homework - dinner around 5:30ish

At that age it was:
Libary one night
Swimming
Park after school, can yours ride bikes and swim well v. important to get those skills at this age.
There was also a roller disco session we went to sometimes but expensive.
Chess club
Riding
Gymnastics
Martial arts
11+ practice

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Me? My post is hardly entertaining or eloquent enough to be AI??