To ask how many times per week your child goes straight home to their house after school?

[Justdontforgethelegofrog]

Because mine hardly ever do. Once per month maybe if I have an afternoon WFH. Just wondered how common this was?

How old?
Mine both have their own keys, and walk home either at the final bell of after their choice of after-school club - which they occasionally choose to skip.

DS2 often pops back out to play football.
DS1 has a crazy schedule of things which are usually between 7and 9pm. So typically does some homework.

Mine goes to after school club until 5.30 Mon-Thurs. I don’t work on Fridays so I collect him at hometime then. Usually he wants to go straight home but sometimes we go to the park, library or a cafe.

It's about 2 days a week. Ds 10 goes to wraparound care until 5pm the other 3 days. He will start senior school next year and will need to make his own way home then.

My DD is in primary school and my work varies week to week so if I am not wfh in the afternoons then she has to go to after school club until 6pm. I have one day off which is the only day guaranteed to pick her up when school finishes

Mine does after school club or childcare 5 days a week due to work. Reception age

When he was at Primary school, never.
Since Secondary he either gets the bus home or (every day at the moment) goes to the gym or out with mates and I collect him later (20 min round trip, which I may or may not combine with something I need/want to do).

Although he was quite able to look after himself from year 7, I always felt pulled. Still do during the long school holidays TBH. It's one thing for people to go on about how of course an 8 year old can entertain themselves for a couple of hours, but when you work full time it's not just now and again it's week after week, month after month, year after year.

I have WFH for years. Lone parent.

Dh works mostly from home and often I do too but dc are 12-15 so fine in the house without a parent for a bit. At primary they went to after school club and a child minder most nights until covid. With cm I was always happy for them to spend the time blobbing in front of the tv if they wanted because they needed downtime.

Always went to after school club every day until she finished y6.

5yo, home 3 days/wk, home then off to a club one day/wk, after school activity until 4.30 one day/wk.
In spring or summer term when we feel he can manage, he will add another school activity evening until 4.30.
Usually we take him to a playground or he has a playdate or activity with a friend one day every other week instead of going home, just to mix things up.

DS is 6 Y2, he comes straight home 3 days, swimming and after school club on the other two. He is easily tired and would struggle with anymore than that.

Yr7 and yr9. They come straight home everyday

One of them: 3 days a week. The other has a school based club one day, then another day comes home, and gets changed to attend an activity 30 mins later.

In primary, maybe once or twice a week. Rest of the time was childminder or ASC. Now, year 10, every day but often later due to rehearsal or other activity. Occasionally out after school with a friend.
Don't feel guilty OP. You are only doing what thousands of us do. I apologised once to DD for putting her in so much childcare, and she said she enjoyed it!

Every day, great now that I wfh although before that I worked term time school hours so they still came home straight after school.

Are you talking about little primary school kids or older children/ teenagers at secondary?

My primary aged child is in childcare after school every day, but sometimes has an after school activity before that.

My eldest has some after school things that she does but they’re not the same every week, and it’s up to her where she goes and how she manages that (with support obviously if needed).

You’re update suggests littlies, but which I mean under 11?

Three times a week minimum.

I work late Wednesday and Thursday. So depends on if their dad can collect otherwise they go to their uncles.

My son, Year 5 is straight home every night bar Fridays when he has a club after 3.30pm.

In the past he would stay late at school with clubs or after school care up to 6pm sometimes.

I am self employed though so have more freedom over hours.

He’s an only child and I always felt it was nicer for him to be around other kids in a more relaxed after school environment than sat home with ‘boring mummy’.

I understand the mum guilt though … used to get it when he’d complain in the past. I get it for other things now !

Well he would do if he didn't keep getting detentions

Once a week on Friday which is my non working day.

I never used to go straight home - probably from year 5 until sixth form. In juniors I’d go to my nans after school and then this just carried on through choice into my teens.

It’s just part of life really, one of them things that can’t be helped.

They go to ASC every day except Friday, even though I WFH. It's too distracting for me to go and collect them in the middle of my afternoon and I can't commit to not having external meetings I need to be out of the house for.

Friday afternoon I do collect them from school and they entertain themselves for a couple of hours until I finish.

Everyday straight home after school. I work pt and dh wfh, school only a 5 min walk away.

Our DS is 6years old.
He comes straight home every day. Then we decide what's happening, park with friends or activities, but always straight back home first.

Y1 and Y4 - go to afterschool care 3 days a week until 5. The other two days I pick up straight after school, but on one of those days we then head out to an activity