DD1 (3.5): Dance class at daycare, 1x/wk from 10:30 to 11:30. We'll probably start skating lessons this winter, which will be on either Monday evening or Saturday mid-morning.
DD2 (3mos): Library storytime on Mondays and mommy n' me yoga on Wednesdays. Both will stop when I go back to work.
Honestly, I don't think I could handle more than 1 or 2 activities per week. And thank goodness daycare offers dance! The tight scheduling would stress me out too much. H & I work similar hours, but mine are a little more flexible, so I'd be bearing the brunt of it.
DS1 just started kindergarten so we're taking it easy right now. He just has swim class 1x/week. We'll add in skiing in the winter. He's 4.5 yo. It's too hard scheduling things right now with us getting home around 5/5:30, and bedtime being 7:30
DS2 is also just doing swimming (well, and daycare fulltime). I'll add in a music class soon for him. He'll be 3 in January.
DD1 will also be adding Girl Scouts the first and 3rd Wed night of the month After soccer is over, DD1 will start gymnastics, and in Spring/summer DD1 and DD2 will do swimming and soccer too. I can't imagine what we'll do when DD3 gets thrown into the mix though.
We only do one thing with DS (age 3): Kinder Soccer: Wed 6:15 - 7 pm.
He's in preschool, but daycare takes him and picks him up. I don't think we'll do more than one thing at once. Possibly ever. We did swimming in August, and we'll likely to another round of that in January. Soccer wraps up at the end of the month.
Dd1, who is 6, is in dance one night a week from 6:00-6:45. Since I work until 5 and dance is the next town over my parents feed both girls supper before I pick them up. We don't get home until after 7 and bedtime is at 7:30. I refuse to be that rushed more then one night a week so she isn't in any other activities. Last night I discovered after she went to bed that she needed to bring in a bag of leaves for school today, was just notified yesterday, so I went outside with a flash light looking for leaves for her.
Dd2 is two and we go to story time on my day off. I refuse to do any lessons that in the evening with her for a couple years yet.
DS 28 mos: Swim Saturdays 9 to 930 Music class Thursdays 430 to 515
Twins 6.5mos: Music class Thursdays 430 to 515
I will be alternating J's swim with other sports until he is a bit older. So when this session ends he will probably do tball, then back to swim etc.
I work 7 to 330 so I am able to take them to the music class. My H tskes J to swim. I don't think I could handle too much more than this. Largely because I do not want things scheduled on both weekend days. We like to do other family outings like museums, the zoo, apple picking, whatever on the weekends and too many activities would interfere with that. So, given that restriction and two parents that work full time they won't be involved in 10000 activities.
Monday: Cub scouts 6:30 - 7:30 (Every other Monday) Tuesday: Just school Wednesday: Flag Football practice 5:00 - 6:30 Thursday: Soccer Practice 5:30 - 6:30 Friday: Flag Football game Times vary weekly Saturday: Soccer game Times vary weekly Sunday: Nothing. We try hard to spend this day at home.
DD 5:
Monday: Just school Tuesday: Just school Wednesday: Gymnastics 2:00 - 2:30 (DH leaves work to take her) Swim 6:15-6:45 Thursday: Soccer practice 4:30 - 5:30 Friday: Just school Saturday: Soccer game Times vary weekly Sunday: Nothing.
As you can see DS is heavily involved in activities but he wants to do it all. At some point we may force him to make some tough decisions. DD has social anxiety which helps to limit her activities. DH and I both work but I get off at 4:00 so it's not too difficult to juggle it all.
ETA: DH coaches both soccer teams so we are able to schedule practices back to back on the same night. And we choose to practice at our neighborhood park. That helps a lot.
Post by marclovesme on Oct 1, 2014 14:35:52 GMT -5
DD is 3, almost 4.
Thursday - gymnastics in the afternoon Saturday - ballet at 12pm -- WORST TIME EVER, will switch to gymnastics in the morning when classes end next month Sunday - swimming at 10am
We also do library on Tuesday or Thursday nights for craft and story time and also once on the weekend for story time.
An executive decision was made to cut off soccer for now, but she used to go once during the week and once on weekends. Gymnastics took its place.
DD1 is 6, in 1st grade. She is in school all day, gets off the bus at 3:40. Monday-swimming 4:30-5:15 Wednesday- gymnastics 5:30-6:30 Thursday- swimming 4:30-5:15, soccer practice 6-7 Saturday- soccer game, varying time
DS is 4.5, in preschool 5 mornings a week 8-11. Monday- swimming 4:30-5:15 Tuesday- hockey 1:30-2:15 Thursday- soccer practice 6-7 ( thank goodness my H is coaching his team so we made his practice the same time as DD1!!) Friday- hockey 1:30-2:15 Saturday- soccer game, varying time
DD2 is almost 14 months Monday- Wiggleworms (music class) 9:30-10:15 Wednesdays-gymboree 11:30-12:15
I'm a SAHM and DD1 is in school M-F 10-1:30. Dd1 is 5 and DD2 is 2.5. Dd2 is not in school.
Dd1 - Swim - T at 3:30 Daisy Troop - twice a month W Gymnastics - R at 4
Dd2 - Gymnastics - T at 10:30 Swim - T at 3:30 Dance - T at 10:30
We decided against soccer for DD1 because I didn't want to give up Saturday's, and she wasn't too interested. When DD2 turns 3 I might start her in gymnastics twice a week because she's pretty good. I'd like to do music too, but not sure when!
Post by dragonfly08 on Oct 1, 2014 14:51:06 GMT -5
My 8 yo goes to Girl Scouts twice a month, Wed. night from 6-7:15. She also takes a swim lesson Sunday mornings from 10:30-11AM. Girl Scouts occasionally coordinates special weekend activities but they are things you pay OOP for as you go rather than being included in regular dues, and they're not on any set schedule. She used to take gymnastics classes but the gym closed, and there isn't another gym really convenient to our house so scheduling is a problem. I'd gladly put her in another activity but nothing seems to interest her.
My 10 yo (turns 11 in less than a week) takes the same swim lesson. She also does Tae Kwon Do three times/week. Usually that's two classes in a row on Th. nights (so 6-7:30) and a class on Sat. from 11:30-12:15. She's about to start a 9 week creative writing class after school on Wednesdays, from 4-5. That kid would happily do more, but she a history of stress/tension headaches and given her usual homework load and discussions with the ped., it's a priority for us that she not be over-scheduled (we actually pulled her from the school orchestra a year and a half ago b/c of this and it definitely helped).
DD1 is 8. She has swim lessons on Monday and Wednesday from 530-6 and piano from 7-730. She currently allowed 2 activities because she has a true passion for piano and swim lessons are at same time/place as DS.
DD2 is 5. She has dance on Thursday from 515-6.
DS is almost 3. He has swim lessons from 5:30-6 on Monday and Wednesday.
My girls have tried out dance, gymnastics, tennis, swimming.... Just not all at the same Time. They have to pick one. They can choose something different basically whenever so that's how we do it. They don't have to do every activity right this second, they have another 10+ years of childhood left to explore different activities.
I work full time and DH is gone very frequently. It's all I can handle and still give them a good amount of unscheduled/unstructured time (which I think is generally more important than learning every sport/activity under the sun).
M: 6:30: Boy Scouts (DS age 6) T: 5:00: Cross Country ( DD1 age 8, DS) W: 5:00: Cross Country (DD1, DS) Fr: 5:00: Cross Country (DD1, DS) Su: Cross Country meets, usually 12:30-3ish
DS has Boy Scouts one Thursday a month as well, plus w/e activities 1-2 times a month.
Cross Country ends in November. DS will start wrestling (not sure of the schedule) and DD1 has no winter sports. I have done a gymnastics class with DD2 (age 2), but now she is in preschool and I think that is sufficient. We'll do a sport when she is 3.5-4.5.
ETA: Due to H's hours I do all evening/weekend activities. I have to make sure nothing overlaps when I sign them up for things.
We're slow right now because I have a newborn but I typically like to have her in an activity at least 3 days a week if possible. She's not in daycare/preschool but also usually have one big play date a week.
Post by InBetweenDays on Oct 1, 2014 15:04:08 GMT -5
DD is 8 (3rd grade) and DS is 5 (K). I work 4 days a week, with 1 of those days working from home.
Ours varies by season but right now it is: Monday: DD - Soccer 6-7pm
Tuesday: DD - Piano 5-5:30pm; DS - Soccer 5:30-6:30pm
Wednesday: DD - Soccer 6-7pm
Friday - occasional swimming lessons for both
Saturday - Soccer games for both (times vary)
Winter is basketball 2x/week (for DD) and skiing 1x/week(for both). Spring is soccer (2x/week) and LAX (1x/week) (for DD) and t-ball 2x/week (for DS) (and skiing on any free weekends as long as there is snow!). Piano is the only constant (for DD).
I'm guessing that DS is going to want to do spring soccer next spring. DD really wants to do track in the spring but we keep telling her she'll have to drop soccer or lacrosse.
At your ds' age, there are all of a sudden a ton of activities available and everyone wants to try it all. DS loved trying anything and everything. At that age, we did swim once a week and a toddler sports class through the city on Saturday mornings. His daycare also did some enrichment classes in the afternoons. They were basically the same classes that the city parks and rec programs offered, but the teachers came to the daycare/preschool so that those of us who worked could still have our kids participate in those activities. I made DS limit it to one per session (sessions were about 10 weeks). He did computers, gymnastics, soccer and karate.
Now he is 8 and school and homework are a lot more overwhelming so we try to pick and choose our activities more. He does Cub Scouts which is about twice a month on Thursday nights from 6-8. He does guitar lessons every other Tuesday night from 6:45-7:15. He isn't playing a sport right now because he isn't big on playing soccer or football, but he will do basketball in the winter which is one practice a week and one game on the weekend and he will do baseball in the spring which is two practices a week and 1-2 games a week. He also participates in the environmental club at school.
We just do daycare 5 days/week and music class on Saturday mornings. We might nix music for soccer next year. Sure we could do more, but I need time to do stuff for myself as well!
Daycare has piano lessons which I think would be super-cute, however it conflicts with when his OT visits him. So maybe once he turns 3 we'll do those since EI phases out at that age.
I have done this before. Kids are 9 and 6. For those of you who don't have it memorized yet:
Mon- C has Football and Soccer practice. Football 6-8 and Soccer 6:30-7:30. Usually attends football. E has dance from 4:45-6 and cheer from 6-7- which means we leave dance 10 min early. Fun times. Cheer will end in Dec. Dance year round.
Tues- Freedom!!!! Except for once a month when C has Drug Free Club at school. Occasionally he has Scouts.
Wed- Corbin often has a soccer clinic for an hour to make up for his missed practice. Eleanor has trampoline class from 4:15-5. She will also have Scouts once a month that night.
Thurs-C has International Club from 3:10-4 at school. He has the same football/soccer song and dance though he usually attends soccer. E has Cheer from 6-7.
Friday-C has Library Club from 3:10-3:30
Weekends are at least one football game per kid. C has at least 1 soccer game.
Basketball starts up this month. It will be one practice and one game a week.
We do one music class which is at 4:30 on Tuesday afternoon.
I doubt I will cart her to 5 things a week, but eventually I would like her to take swimming lessons long enough to be confident in the water, and piano. I can see limiting it to one musical activity and one sport activity per season if we need to once she's older (school aged). Free play time is important too.
Sat: Both kids do swim in the morning, my daughter does dance right after (my son usually goes to the park since he's not a really a fan of highly structured activities) Sun: Religious school from 9-11 I do not take my children to activities during the work week. My son is in full time daycare which does offer some enrichment (push in music and dance 2X per month).
My daughter is doing after school at the Y so she does 1 activity per day there (gymnastics, dance, cooking, art, and some sort of game day on Friday). If she was home with a sitter I'd probably have her do something 3X per week.
Post by whitepicketfence on Oct 1, 2014 15:18:01 GMT -5
Both DD1 and DD2:
Preschool - M, W, F - 8:45-12:00
Dance class - Thursday 1:00-2:00
Ages 4.5 and 3
DD1 may start cross country, swimming, and Daisies (Girl Scouts) next year when she starts kindergarten but it will depend on when the practices/meets/etc are.
I work PT and on 2nd shift so I'm home during the day to run the kids around. Between DH's work and school schedule, he's not available until after 9 PM most nights so it all falls to me.