Is my DS doing too many clubs?

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My son is 6 and in year 2. He seems to be into everything and loves the Clubs he goes to... he currently does
Football after school for one hour 2 days a week and once at the weekend
Beavers one evening
Swimming lesson one day after school
Dancing one day after school
I have repeatedly asked him if he wants to give something up as we are worried it is too much! He begs us not to give anything up... so my question is how much do your children do and should I be restricting his activities??!

If he's happy, getting enough rest and keeping up at school I wouldn't change anything. I'm guessing he gets down time at the weekend so that isn't an issue.

If he loves it and school work isn’t affected then it seems fine to me. Good excuse for nice relaxed weekends! You can always assess in the future if he’s getting knackered and go from there.

I worry the same here he's 7 just gone into yr3 and doing football training mon, wed, fri matches Sunday and then beavers Thursday

He wants to give up beavers when he gets to 8 as doesn't want to do cubs but I don't want him just doing football

Dh and I don't get to eat properly or at a sensible time on many evenings and he will have more homework this year to contend with too. Also concerned as Ds2 gets bigger he will want to start more activities which will be harder again.

My son has just gone into year 4. He does after school, drama on Tuesday, cooking Thursday, cubs Friday, swimming at weekend. He was also doing 3 hours of drama at weekend as well but we have dropped it for this term as he's in a production so has to go to goes to reherseals twice a week as well. It sometimes feels like a lot but he enjoys it and if he doesn't want to do something he won't. I think it's important to give them the opportunity to participate in activities outside school they enjoy. I'm guessing as he gets older he might ask to drop some, the only thing we will insist he keeps on is swimming and that's only till he can swim confidently .

Thanks everyone. I think he is ok for now but just worried about him in the future. I think at the end of this school year I may see about him dropping something as I imagine there will be a lot more school work in juniors. I always did a lot Of dancing after school but one good thing about this sort of thing is that when I had tough times At school (which I did) I had a whole other group of friends in the form of my dance school friends, none of which went to my school (luckily I think!)

I’d be led by him. Some kids like lots of down time that’s unstructured and others thrive with extra stuff going on. There’s not a right or wrong.
My similarly aged son does football twice a week on school days-1 and 2 hours, gymnastics twice a week for 2 hour sessions and martial arts for an hour at the weekend. Alternate weekends he also does mini football tournaments. This might seem a lot- 8-12 hours of activity... but my 10 year old does up to 19 hours a week of gymnastics so compared to her he has a lot of free time! Horses for courses.