How many activites do your 6 year olds do after school?

[Amanda1]

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Meant to add, they are learning to swim through school, one less thing to pay for, yay!

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at last years teacher, Amanda - how pathetic in this day and age. Glad you've got a better one now.

DD is nearly 8

She swims twice a week, dances twice a week, brownies, gym & Piano

Youth club has just opened and I've suggested that as she wants to go, she should give up something else. You wouldn't believe the tantrums

I think she does way to much - but how do I deprive her of something she enjoys?

DS1 (6) does Beavers Monday, swimming Tuesday and dance Saturday; dd (4) does swimming Tuesday and Saturday and dance wednesday; ds2 (2) does gym Friday and swimming Saturday.
I agree with others that swimming is essential and I like them all to do a movement-activity type thing too (dance etc). Beavers is a new addition and seems to be going OK. But yes, you do have to watch it. I?d like to introduce music lessons and think DD might like to do gym as well (she did ds2?s pre-school gym and liked it) but in that case somethign would have to give.
Amanda as you just have dd atm, if she is still keen to do the things/not tired then I?d not worry too much.

DS2 (6) has swimming lessons and does Beavers which is plenty with two other kids to sort out.

When I was pregnant with him I made a deliberate attempt to cut down (gently) on DS1's activities (he was 5 at the time) - I did things like change his swimming lessons to Saturday morning from after school so his dad could take him etc. as I didn't want him to associate the new baby arriving with having to stop doing things he liked, but I knew with two it would be hard to keep everything up. With the best will in the world when your new baby arrives you won't want to be running around after school every day.

If you don't want to do that maybe you could organise to share the dropping off/picking up with other mums to give yourself a bit of a break.

DD swims for a club on Tues, Thurs (eve) and Sat morning.. and goes to Rainbows for an hour after school on a Tuesday. She also does After School Club (just for the fun of it.. not as childcare option) on a Thurs.

She has just recently given up tap/modern/ballet (which was mainly Saturdays but starting to take over ourt lives and cost more than we could afford). It was mutual decision.. if she had begged to carry on we would have let her.

Ds does gymnastics one day a week and after school club two nights. It's plenty. If you add in one night a week for him to have a friend back that's only one night out of five to chill out.
Year one is a hard year I think so I'd rather he didn't have too much on. Will look again after Easetr I think/

I feel very guilty that he is still not swimming but I just haven't worked out a good time to do lessons.

puddle it's tricky isn't it about swim lessons. Do you do them after school when they are often tired - and what time? how do you fit in tea?
And then on a Ssturday (here anyway) they are at lunchtime which kind of ruins the day in terms of going out as a family.
We have ds1 and dd at the same time fabbo at 5.30 tues eve which at least means they can have a quick snacky tea at 4pm, a bit of chill out, then I get ds2 from c/m at 5pm and off to pool. Home by 6.30. Seems to work OK.

dd1, 5.5 (year 1) does nothing except after school club once a week. She was doing swimming on Saturdays for the last 2 years but that's been all.

I'm considering Rainbows or Woodcraft folk for her but she gets tired easily. Also she's quite happy at home, she has 2 sisters and they are rarely bored.

I have worked out that my life will be easier if the girls aren't going to clubs and classes all the time so am not pushing too much for these things before they want to do it quite strongly - I don't want to turn into a chauffeur. Hence am championing the "let them learn to entertain themselves" approach

Clary I'm tempted to try and put him into an intensive course in half term or Xmas hols. But again I don't want to pile too much on him - the Autumn term is a long one and I do think that school ups its pace in year one - he'll probably need to spend half term just messing about. I want to avoid too much structured stuff so early - they're still very young.

dd (nearly 5, year 1) - ballet on Tuesdays.
ds (6.5, year 2) - tae kwon do on Tuesdays, swimming on Saturday mornings.

Both are on a waiting list to do a drama club at weekend.

Any more than that & we'd be underwater I think - their school day is long (up at 6.45, home around 4) and although the homework is not that exacting I feel doing it in an unpressured way should be our priority, at least for the start of the school year.

Also thinking that Blue Peter at 5 on Wednesday should be considered a formal "activity".

ooh yes puddle give that a go, both ds2 and dd did two week-long crash courses this summer and did really well. DD in partic who was only 4 in June, it was her first proper swimming lessons and she swam the width ofthe pool with no armbands in the 2nd week. I was soo proud [tearful mummy icon]
Batters well done to yr dd that's great!

Dd is 6 and she does drama 1 weekday afternoon, and swimming with ds1 and 2 at the weekend. She also has piano lessons at school. The dss between them have 3 or 4 after school activities, and what with ds3 (20m) I haven't really the time for any more ferrying about!
I also strongly agree they need a good dose of unstructured chill out time. When friend/relatives visit with kids, I do think you can tell who are the "let's get on and amuse ourselves" brigade, and the ones who aren't... I know what sort of children I prefer

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My son is 5 and in year one.Itry to limit my kids to 2 activities,plus swimming (I think learning to be a good swimmer is a must) per week in school term.He has beavers on a Monday and Judo on a Wednesday.He has his swim class on sat mornings. He chose the beavers and the Judo.
My dd1 is 3.7 and in nusery school. She has tap on a tues and gymnastics on Wed afternoons. She also has her swim class on Sat mornings.

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DS is almost 7 and has just started having golf lessons. He had never wanted to do anything prior to this. DD is nearly 5 and she doesn't want to do anything yet. Have suggested ballet, Rainbows but nope, she's not keen. I'm sure she'll do them when she's ready.

my dd1 (year 1) does ballet on Friday afternoons and swimming on Saturday mornings. She wants to do horse riding too (Saturdays). She would also love to do gymnastics and start learning the piano but I have said no to those 2.