Activities

[dontsweatthestuff]

Kids (age 8) seem a bit wiped out so thinking of cutting back to 2 clubs:

Basketball monday night - leave 5:30pm back at 7:30pm
Tuesday - home
Weds - lego club til 5pm
Thurs - swimming lessons at school and rugby training 4:30pm-6:30pm
Fri - home
Sat - family time (DH likes to be out and about)
Sun - rugby takes up most of Sundays as they play and Dad coaches (9am-1pm)

The issue is that the rugby isn’t simply popping round the corner, we have to travel to the next town as the local teams are full so it takes more time.

I think they need a bit more time to just ‘potter and be’ and they get plenty of exercise from the rugby alone.

DS1 wants to do all of it but he has been much more tired than usual.

I’ve asked him to choose between Lego (the one thing he asks me to keep going term after term) and the Monday night activity. He chose Lego but was sad to miss out. Just for now to see how it goes. It’s fine line
isn’t it?!

Do they like the rugby? Did he have the choice to keep basketball and drop rugby?

They love the rugby. He said he prefers rugby to basketball.

Then drop the basket ball, make sure he is getting enough sleep and takes his vitamin D.

I'm not surprised he chose Lego. It sounds a hell of a lot more chilled and less coached than all his other activities, and it's more creative - even aside from the fact that it's not physically tiring - so it probably feels a lot more like down-time than an activity.

Sat - family time (DH likes to be out and about)

Is it possible that your DH needs to let people just fucking relax for five minutes? He's already taking the kids to rugby - which he coaches - for the majority of Sunday, so why does he have to make everyone get up and be 'out and about' on Saturday as well? Why can't family time be a late breakfast and then you all relax downstairs, kids playing while you read the weekend papers or listen to the radio? Or a family film in the afternoon, or a board game?

We have a slow Saturday morning then if we pop out it’s usually after lunch then back for tea and perhaps a
board game etc. I schedule in the chilling as I agree with you that the 4 hours Sunday morning round trip to do a
sport is plenty. Sunday afternoon relax.

It’s more in the week. By Friday the kids are tired which is normal after a school week I supoose but their Thurs is esp busy.

Swimming ends in a few weeks I suppose.