Mums - how does your week work?

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I'm thinking after school really, clubs, friends over etc, and how much and when do you do school work etc, how often abs how much!?
Sorry! I need to try and organise my life!!

That's a really big question. No one right fit for all. And DH is the house parent so he does most of it, now.

Sorry, I guess I'm just trying to ensure I am doing enough, homework, clubs, play dates, easy days etc each week?!

I think most people just take it slowly until they find their own limits, iyswim.

There's no right answer really. My DCs do lots of after school activities but I know some people prefer not to - it depends on finances, how tired your DC's get, location / convenience of the activities etc. We do a playdate once a fortnight or so.

Not sure if that helps?

Clubs dd 15 has air cadets 2-3 times a week depending if one might is sport related. Also church youth club once a week. She doesn't havd homework it's done as part of the school day. ( she finishes school at 5pm)
Dd 9 has brownies and church kids club. Homework - she doesn't do it she has autism and it cause issues school are fine with this.
As for friends over mainly just at weekends holidays.
Younger dc are too little for clubs etc.

I think everyone's definition of "enough" is pretty unique to their family circumstances tbh.

My dcs do quite a lot of activities (at their request) so we don't have friends over much. I try and keep one night a week totally free, would prefer it to be two but at the moment that's not feasible. Some of their friends do no extracurricular activities, others do loads.

They read most evenings, any other homework gets done at the weekend.

Not sure if that really helps you though?

Sorry perhaps I should say dc is in year 1. I just really worry as others in his class seem to have loads of play dates etc but I also worry we don't read or write enough, we do about 3 nights a week for 1/2 hour.....is that enough?

Ds is in year 1. We work full time so he's in after school clubs every day except Fridays, when he does gym. Saturdays he does swimming, Sundays he does language and chess.

Play dates don't really happen unless it's the hols! We do help look after other friends kids when they need help so we class that as play dates!

Thank you NK5BM3
How much reading and school work do you do each week?

He gets homework once a week. And he reads every night. He does sleep late though (about 9!) through his own sleep pattern. Wakes at 7/7.30. We do writing/math/science on an ad hoc basis...

Don't fret about it, honestly. Take your lead from him and apart from the reading stuff, just try and work stuff according to what he wants to do.

My dd is nearly 10. I work so she goes to after school club. For the last couple of years this includes homework club 3 afternoons. She does Brownies on a Tuesday, and swimming on a Saturday. A year ago we tried a theatre thing on a Thursday but that was too much.

I have never ever done play dates after school. If your ds gets invited though you could reciprocate? Play it by ear. Dd does the odd sleepover now and I do invite others for sleepovers/play dates/ trips to the cinema - but not every week or anything. Your ds might find a passion - football/cubs/drama or something and then you will be rushing about like a mad thing. Leave it up to him...

i work full time and drop my kids off at about 8.15 and pick up about 5.30-5.45. fortunately they are at a lovely school which provides full wrap around care and they can do some activities at school also (karate, drama, ballet). Most other parents at the school also work FT so weekday playdates are pretty rare.
We get home around 6pm and we have a routine that they do reading/spelling straight away which takes about 30 mins in general, then they have an hour or so to play. My son does Football on a thursday at 6pm and matches saturday morning, my daughter gymnastics and trampoling at weekends. Friends playdates are at weekends if / when possible but not loads.

I dont want to spend hours each evening with school work, at their age, imo, it is really important to have downtime and just play whatever they want to.

Sunday mornings usually involve maybe 30 minutes of homework each. (they are in Y2 and Y1)

At the moment we don't do any after school clubs and have friends over maybe once a fortnight. I am a sahm with a 6yo, almost 4yo and I'm 30 weeks pregnant.

The eldest is not keen to do an after school activity, he would rather come home and that's fine with me, he usually does football at the weekend and I have put him on the beavers waiting list. I'm trying to keep things low key whilst they are small.

I'm a sahm and have dd 10 and ds 18 months. Dd doesn't want to do any after school activities so that makes life simple for me! :)

I hate baby and toddler groups so don't go to those either... I just trundle around locally with ds- library, park, grocery stuff, stay at home.

I'm boring to be honest but after working for a long time in senior marketing management I am enjoying the quiet life!

I work 3 days so DD1 (year2) is in after school club when I'm at work and DD2 at Childminders till 5pm.

DD1 does Taekwondo on Monday eve, nothing else during the week, we go swimming as a family on Saturday mornings and DD1 does trampolining on Sunday mornings.

We do a bit, maybe 10 minutes, of reading each week night before bed, and about 1/2 hour of maths homework at the weekend. Play dates are pretty much a school holiday thing.

I work 4 days. DH takes DS1 (5) to school each morning and I collect him at about 4.15. He does a sport after school each of those days and some supervised prep. If he hasn't done all his homework (he gets something each day apart from fri) that's first to be done when we get in along with reading (after collecting DS2 (3) from nursery). Then it's dinner, bath and bed (they watch a bit of TV if there's time).

Fridays are more relaxed as I'm not working. DS2 is with me all day and we collect DS1 directly from school unless he has a play date.

Weekends, both boys have swimming but apart from that we just do family stuff.