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Mrs213
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FTWMs: Are you finding it hard as your kids are getting older scheduling activities/sports, etc
My kid are still little but this is one area where I think the flexibility of working retail hours will be on my side
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lcherian
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Re: FTWMs: Are you finding it hard as your kids are getting older scheduling activities/sports, etc
I refuse to be stressed out rushing my kids from activity to activity. they both have a 30 minute swim lesson on Saturdays and that's it.
I feel like there's this immense pressure to put your kids in a million activities and if you don't, somehow your kids are being deprived. 
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| Posted 5/30/15 11:03 PM |
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nferrandi
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Re: FTWMs: Are you finding it hard as your kids are getting older scheduling activities/sports, etc
Posted by lcherian
I refuse to be stressed out rushing my kids from activity to activity. they both have a 30 minute swim lesson on Saturdays and that's it.
I feel like there's this immense pressure to put your kids in a million activities and if you don't, somehow your kids are being deprived.
I agree, to an extent. But my DS does only one activity. It's just that that one activity is 3 times a week. If he had stuck with playing goalie it would have been 4 times a week because there's a special goalie clinic one night a week.
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| Posted 5/31/15 6:06 PM |
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lcherian
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Re: FTWMs: Are you finding it hard as your kids are getting older scheduling activities/sports, etc
Posted by nferrandi
Posted by lcherian
I refuse to be stressed out rushing my kids from activity to activity. they both have a 30 minute swim lesson on Saturdays and that's it.
I feel like there's this immense pressure to put your kids in a million activities and if you don't, somehow your kids are being deprived.
I agree, to an extent. But my DS does only one activity. It's just that that one activity is 3 times a week. If he had stuck with playing goalie it would have been 4 times a week because there's a special goalie clinic one night a week.
and my situation is different because I pretty much operate like a single mom. I applaud those moms who can do it all, but for me personally, taking my children to activities multiple times a week would stress me out.
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DRMom
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Re: FTWMs: Are you finding it hard as your kids are getting older scheduling activities/sports, etc
My boys are 6.5 and in K
Monday: No activity
Tuesday: Golf-but thats over now for the season
Wed: Tae Kwan Do which one of my sons hates, so I am going to have to figure out something there as they need to do the same thing since I am the only one here.
Thursday: Science Safari-1 hr long drop off class which they LOVE
Friday: Nothing
They really havent done any organized sports yet which we need to work on. They did B-balll when they were 4 and they were horrible lol
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| Posted 6/1/15 10:06 AM |
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stinger
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Re: FTWMs: Are you finding it hard as your kids are getting older scheduling activities/sports, etc
Posted by lcherian
Posted by nferrandi
Posted by lcherian
I refuse to be stressed out rushing my kids from activity to activity. they both have a 30 minute swim lesson on Saturdays and that's it.
I feel like there's this immense pressure to put your kids in a million activities and if you don't, somehow your kids are being deprived.
I agree, to an extent. But my DS does only one activity. It's just that that one activity is 3 times a week. If he had stuck with playing goalie it would have been 4 times a week because there's a special goalie clinic one night a week.
and my situation is different because I pretty much operate like a single mom. I applaud those moms who can do it all, but for me personally, taking my children to activities multiple times a week would stress me out.
I AM and single mom aside from every other weekend when ex DH has my DDs. DD is in 6th grade and has a lot of homework and tests. By the time we are all home at 5pm it's walk the dog, dinner, more hw, showers, clean up, play outside, bed at 9. I like to spend time with my DDs and eat healthy home cooked meals together. That's always been more important to me than extracurricular activities. They do each do one or 2 activities on the weekends as well as clubs at school. I can't stand being over scheduled and don't like the stress our society (academic and overachieving) has to begin with.
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