do your children do any extra curricular activities?

[NordicPrincess]

if so what do they do?

my son is 4 and wants to play the drums so i am waiting for the music teacher to call back and book a free one off session to see if he likes it. im also taking my 20month year old daughter to gymnastices once a week soon

Neytiri
DD does karate and pottery. she used to do brownies, swimming, choir, scrapbooking and something else that escapes me. Her current school has less on offer (and at greater cost) and she doesn't speak enough any Flemish which would enable her to go to the locally organised stuff.

Mandarin lessons
Calculous for Six Year Olds
Intermediate Pilates
A-level Latin
Power Chess
Open University degree in Philosophy & Economics

My 4yo DS does a music class and a gym/multi-sports class, both once a week.

These are the first activities I have signed him up for.

Between them, my DDs do athletics, foorball, Brownies & Sea Cadets. Think that is plenty!

Only Intermediate Pilates, proudnglad?

Well, I suppose if you want to be one of these hippy non-competitive sorts...

In the past they have also done Highland dancing, swimming, gymnastics, netball, choir and basketball, but have given those up.

Dd 7 does street dance, dance and cheerleading after school and swimming and piano lessons at the weekend.

DD 9 yo : Swim 3x a week (Squad training)
Cubs
Piano
Choir (in lunchtime)

DS 7 yo : Swim 1x a week
Cubs
Karate
Football (now and then)

My god, some of the poor kids on this thread, when do they get to 'switch off'?

DS (12) Drum classes
Hanging round on street corner workshop

DD (5) Drama after school club

Professor, to clarify - Intermediate Pilates instructor

Ds (6) arts/crafts club once a week.

my list was a joke list btw, dd only does brownies and swimming

Ds (16) he goes football training twice a week and match on Sunday.

Ds (14) school rugby team, trains and matches after school.

I dont take either of them, so not sure if that counts.

My daughter works as a prostitute after school.

This is because she had the HPV vaccination.

We pray for her daily.

dd 6 does taekwondo twice a week 1hr 30mins per lesson. Aswell as everything taekwondo entails at weekends. Semianrs, gradings displays. She also compeates nationally. She might do an afterschool club once a week if theres one she wants to do.

DS 4 does taekwondo twice a week with his sister but doesnt compeate yet so not as intence. hes only just started full time at reception so no afterschool clubs for him yet.

I think its plenty for them we will look at swimming next year aswell.

She'll be learning practical application of arithmetic skills in relation to money, then, Snobear? IIRC DS's school has suggested that as an important area to concentrate on at home.

And it probably counts as regular exercise.

DD (6.5) does swimming and irish dancing, used to do gymnastics but quit after first batch of classes, thinking of adding another activity like horse riding or an instrument and she will also be picking up another class in irish dancing when she starts the hardshoe/heavy dances.

DS (3) does nothing - will be adding swimming, irish dancing and poss rugby, horse riding or a musical instrument when he is old enough.

Indeed, Professor. Well she is gaining valuable entrepreneurial skills, showing initiative, and pocketing a great deal more money than her paper-run friends are.

Drums??? Are you mental???

DS (6) does football, tennis, cricket and swimming.
DD (4) does ballet, cricket and swimming.

At 4, DS only did swimming. The other stuff he started at 5. He needs lots of physical activity to burn off his energy. He needs to do this with supervised instruction that doesn't involve his mother so that I can cope with him the rest of the time.

dd1(5) does gymnastics and irish dancing (after school)

dd2(2.11) no organised activities but she can hang upside down from bunk beds and likes to run around naked for vast amounts of the day. We're very proud.

6yo dd3 does steel drums (she wants one for Christmas ). Also sewing and yoga after school (they double up as after school care for working parents), swimming and woodcraft folk.

10yo dd1 also wants to go to drum club (it's all the rage at our school at the moment) but I was relieved to see it clashed with the quieter chess club she's already signed up for. I recommend chess. Such a nice quiet hobby.

DD1 (10) does swimming twice a week, irish dancing twice a week and football straight after school. She is also going to guides for the first time this evening to see if she likes it.

DD2 (8) does swimming once a week, irish dancing twice a week and brownies. She told me last night she is also joining the school choir, but that is at lunch time and doesn't cost anything.

My 3 between them attend 1 piano lesson on a Saturday morning, and even that's a struggle to get out of bed for (both me and DD). We've been through all the swimming, Brownies, ballet etc., but now that they are 9, 11 and 13 no one could be arsed any more. DS managed to get to year 5 without doing any club or activity at all, until he weakened and joined a chess tournament. They all just like chilling at home or hanging out with their friends, just like their lazy parents.

8 month old DD goes to 'sing and play' and swimming, both once a week :P

My hopefully-optimistic-new-mum-plan is that she ends up doing three activities per week - one sporty, one creative, and one educational (preferably a language).

My pessimistic-cynical-lazy-slattern-plan is that she'll watch Dora the Explorer to learn Spanish, that we'll take her swimming once a month year and that she'll have some plasticine going mouldy in the corner of her toy chest.