What do your kids do straight after school?

[MajorClanger123]

Just curious really....mine do after school activities Wednesday & Fri. Other than that its straight home and muck around until tea, then after tea they're allowed some screen time (depending on my day will depend on how early / late I cook tea and therefore what time they get screen time ), then we do reading / homework and hurry them all upstairs for bath etc.

It always feels abit manic (3 kids to bathe, read to / be read to etc). Just curious what other families after school weekdays look like...

Mon, thurs and fri are straight home from school (get home about 3.45) and ds5 literally flops and is uncommunicative for an hour. He eats a snack and watches tv and occasionally fiddles with some toys. I've learnt to leave him well alone or he combusts.

After that and he's recovered, we do his reading homework. Ds will play with toys / lego etc while I cook. After tea it's a bit more play time and bath/ bed.

Tuesdays are often play date night at the moment and Wednesdays he does a sports club. On those nights it's home, tea, bath and bed.

One DD, year R.

Walk home, snack, play until about 4.30, then homework or something a bit 'learning'-ish (might be Lego building or a game or making a birthday card if there is no homework). She then plays or watches TV while I prepare dinner which we normally have at about 5.30. Then a bit more play before she reads to one of us at about 6.30, and then bath (not every day) and then one of us reads to her. Bed at 7.30.

Monday is ballet/tap and Thursday is French, so it's sandwiches in the car on those days. On playdate days she's busy until about 6 or 6.15, so any homework is done on other days or shoehorned in just before reading.

We don't allow tablet/phone play in the evenings, but she gets that time in our bed in the morning before breakfast club.

One DD, year R. School finishes 3:15.

Two days a week does swimming / gymnastics, at least one day a week if the weather's nice, heads straight to the playground (often via home for change of school trousers / pick up bike etc. as we live a few minutes from school) otherwise comes in, plays with toys, dresses up, runs about watches TV, reads, writes, makes things, games on tablet or computer, just basic self directed play, maybe with one of us. Will normally ask for and get some food. Maybe chats to people on skype.

We eat dinner at 6:30ish where we chat about our day, then we play some more, twice a week we do the two minutes it takes to read her school book as her only "homework" in this after dinner, bath sometimes, maybe go out shopping if we need something. In bed some time after 8:30, read some stories, have a chat, and she tends to be asleep by 10, although not always.

Up just before 8.

It seems quite different, with the much later bed time, and the less than 5 weeks homework a week, we have so much more time, playing with each other and chatting, and doing stuff, I'm pretty glad of that I think!

DS empties his bags, with a few reminders, and then goes off for some chill out time in his room(it's good not to speak to DS until he has done this). Dd hangs her bag and coat up then usually has a little shout at me, a cry and then tells me those little niggles that have built up over the day...we are working on that reaction. Each have a club 2 nights a week because to be honest they would rather chill out and draw or play whatever after their shitty hard day at school. Any tech is for an hour after tea then a little chill out before bed....cramming in anything else we need to along the way .

These have been fascinating, thanks all. Not sure why but its reassuring to know that everyone else's after school antics are pretty similar to ours plus it also soothes me that other peoples kids bicker / shout / scream / whinge straight after school pick up, not just mine

Mine is usually at the childminder's. It's generally a quick snack then play or watch tv, tea and then I pick him up. After that, it's bath, story and bed apart from one night a week when he goes to Beavers. The one day I do pick him up from school, it's swimming lessons, McDonald's for tea and then home for the usual routine. It does feel like I don't get much time with him to be honest.