How many of you do not have your kids involved in some type of activity?

meghans30

Both kids started school this fall. Trev is in full day kindergarten which requires him to travel across the city to attend an intensive speech program. He doesn't get home until a little after 4. The youngest goes to full day pre-k 3 days per week. My husband works nights and I work full time. I do not have either boy involved in a sport or club. I just feel like by the time we all get home, settled and have dinner it is bedtime. How do you fit in a sport or activity without feeling overwhelmed? 

DandelionMom

I decided not to do anything this fall because it is my middle DD's first year in full day school.  So we're taking a few months off to settle in before we start up with anything. 

AnnapolisLari

I have been told by more than one person that kids do best in sports/organized activity when they are 5 or older. Before then, not so much.

DS is in preschool for 2 1/4 hours a day, 3 days a week. That is plenty for an almost 4 year old.

CleoKitty

Neither of my kids are in anything. Ds took some swim lessons over the summer but that's it and now he's in kindergarten full-day. I think we're going to sign him up for a children's choir, but that probably won't happen until the second semester.

Dd, our poor neglected second child, is 2/5 and she's never been in any sort of formal class/activity. 

brightning

My DD has never done any organized activities.

Marce921

DS1 was in T-Ball this summer, but now that school started (he goes two days a week for 2 1/2 hrs each day) we don't have him in any activity.

MaddysMama07

We don't. DH and I both work full-time and DH also goes to school. We just don't have time for any extra activities right now. Hopefully, by next fall our schedules will settle a little bit. I'd really like to put Madelyn in dance.

Andrewsgal

I SAH so we have a lot of time. 

I do think that kids under the age of 5 do benifit from organzied sports. DD loved t-ball last year, she had fun and really enjoyed playing on a team. I would say just from that alone she did benifit from it.

She will be doing gymnasics, soccer, swimming and preschool this year. When you spread it out to 6 days a week it is really not that much everyday.

peekaboo716

I work FT, and the kids are in pre-school/daycare until I pick them up at 5. We do swimming lessons 1/week, and DS did soccer and t-ball this summer. DD hasn't been in any extra curricular yet.

xbrooklyngrl

Both DH and I also work full time and B is in daycare until 5pm.

She will start dance this Saturday for the first time. She hasn't been in anything extra until now outside of school.