What if any are your kids activities?

[goofyisinphilly]

I don't have kids but I do teach piano, voice, and oboe. Most of my students also participate in either soccer, basketball, baseball, or riding. Thanks the good lord none of my students are overly scheduled. Makes for a happy teacher and progressing students.

I had 2 students one year that did: before school swin practice, violin, cello, group piano class, after school homework club, and Hebrew school. Needless to say after about 6 months I advised them to drop piano. They were wasting money b/c the children never practiced due to being gone to other activities all the time. I think the parents went and found another teacher.

 

[holly7347]

Right now my 5 year old takes a swim class and a creative movement "dance" class at the YMCA.

My 3 year old starts her first swim class tomorrow morning.

I would like my girls to be involved 1 athletic type activity either recreationally or a league sport just for the benefits of being active and learning to work on a team. Swim lessons are mandatory for safety reasons. I frequently take my DD's to the pool by myself and just want them to have at least some basic swimming skills. Anything else they show an interest in is just going to depend on time and money.

They are still young but it looks like the oldest will be interested in dance and gymnastics type things and the youngest will be intersted sports.

 

[princessmom29]

DD4 DID ballet and tap for the first time this year. She loves it so we will continue. She goes to pre-k full time.

 

[PA Princess]

ds 13 swimming (year round teams), tap, church choir, guitar lessons

ds 12 swimming (summer team), baseball, tap, church choir, drum lessons

dd 7 swimming (year round teams), tap, acrobats, church choir, piano lessons

dd 3 will start once a week swim lessons this week

With 4 kids it has been necessary to encourage involvement in similar areas, but it still seems we spend an inordinate amount of time with kid activities. My favorite season is summer when all anyone does is summer swim team.

 

[MNdisneymom]

My DS (5) goes to preK 2 half days a week, karate once a week, and swimming once or twice a week (depends on his swim school offering extra (cheap) lessons). We'll see how long karate lasts, he enjoys it but isn't as coordinated as some of the kids in his class. Swimming he'll keep doing for a long time--for the water safety skills alone it is invaluable. (We spend a lot of time on the water during the summer.) Also, Wednesday is church night...we eat dinner, he does kiddie choir (they sing in church in two weeks , hopefully he won't do anything embarrassing...) and I work in the nursery.

I asked him today if there were any other sports or things he wanted to try this summer (our local community ed has a bunch of 1 week day camp type things), and he said no. I know that a lot of his friends were doing soccer and or t-ball last summer (when they were 4)--but he's not interested.

 

[grlpwrd]

I think I responded to a similar thread, but I have some revisions because my school schedule and my older kids' schedule have changed.

16 yo daughter - she has a job now, modeling, Girl Scouts, volunteering, school clubs
13 yo daughter - modeling and acting, Girl Scouts, volunteering, school clubs
9 yo daughter - Girl Scouts, volunteering, will be enrolling in karate or kung fu
4 yo son - preschool activities, gymnastics
2.5 yo daughter - just loving life and being a toddler

Our 3 oldest have been in kung fu and swimming, but we cut back. I teach them hula and sewing at home, we go to the Y or workout at home, and we also do more family activities. I may teach them to play the ukulele this summer.

 

[Katy Belle]

DS12- Boy Scouts, Confirmation, Basketball, plays Tuba in the community Orchestra(and at school too)
DS10-Cub Scouts, various After School Activities(explained below),acts in community theatre when there is a show, will start guitar soon
DS8- Cub Scouts, various After School Activities, acts in community theatre when there is a show, will start guitar soon

After School Activities - Our school has FREE activities for the kids! They meet once a week for 6 weeks, then they switch to all new activities. There are 8-10 offered per grade level per session.
This year DS8 has done soccer, floor hockey, chess, and hopes to get into Science Club
This year DS10 has done, Plant Terarium, Kick ball,

 

[Worfiedoodles]

DS10 does gymnastics, piano, and advanced art classes year-round. He also does basketball in the fall and whiffleball in the winter. He used to take swim classes as well, but he got to the competitive level and didn't find it fun anymore. He'd like to add ballroom dancing, but I don't think we have the patience or time for one more activity!

 

[jhnsnfamily]

Some of your kids are in things I haven't even heard of!

taximomfor4--I do the same thing--one thing at a time, and if they commit (and I pay), they have to finish. If they hate it, they never have to do it again, but they have to finish it.

Anywho--my kids do the following:

Both:

Baseball (now) --twice a week practices for each (both boys got Sat at the same time ... yeah!)
Wrestling (just finished) -- 1.5 hour practices, meets were LLOOOOONG! 6 hrs plus and one of the places was an hour and 40 minutes one way! It happened to be their very first meet and DH had to work, so I was by myself. I kept thinking ... all this for only 9 minutes of wrestling? Am I nuts??
Cub Scouts (finishing up this year--probably are done with this--this pack is not very organized or dedicated to making the kids great scouts--they run all over the place during functions, act inappropriately, don't have their uniforms on correctly, etc.)
Football (fall). DS9 played last year while DS7 played soccer. Both will play football this fall (first year DS7 is eligible to play). Thank goodness--it was so hard to run back and forth from field to field, plus I was one of the cheerleading coaches. We were at the field five to six days a week.

DS7 isn't sure about wrestling for next year. He finished his season, but he's just not sure yet. If he chooses not to do that next season, DH and I want to sign him up for art classes--he's really great. Great at caricatures (sp?). Might do this anyway if we can swing it (time wise).

DS9 (will be 10 tomorrow! April Fool's Day baby!)--he's also a good drawer--maybe art classes for him, too. He also participates in his schools "news" program (have to forfeit recess 2x a week), book club, drawing club (he actually got this one started on his own then got the 4th grade teachers on board), and school/church plays. He's my "spotlight" kid. DS7--not so much. Although he did have a speaking part in this past year's church christmas play -- and he said his lines! (which he didn't do the year before -- and he played Jesus! He's the only one that didn't say his lines! Oh well, I thought it was charming!)

 

[taximomfor4]

Wrestling (just finished) -- 1.5 hour practices, meets were LLOOOOONG! 6 hrs plus and one of the places was an hour and 40 minutes one way! It happened to be their very first meet and DH had to work, so I was by myself. I kept thinking ... all this for only 9 minutes of wrestling? Am I nuts??

haha I say the same about the compeitions I take the girls to,for Irish Dance. But we are lucky enough that our school isn't highly competitive, doesn't care if the kids EVER Compete. And since the kids compete as soloists, we sign them up for anywhere/any time we want. We choose whichever are within 4 hours drive, on weekend that we have no plans. The girls dance about 16 bars of music about 5 different times throughout a LONG day. TOTAL. But we make friends with competitors and their moms, and run to the results board constantly.

 

[minkydog]

DD14 dances hip-hop 3-1/2 hrs a week. She has taken ballet and jazz for several years, but found that hip-hop just suits her to a T. It's very athletic, so it fills the need for adding a sport. Shes not much for organized sports.

She also sings in a professional children's choir and tours in the summers. During the school year she is active in chorus and theater at school. One the few weekends she is not otherwise committed,DD likes to organize campouts with her BFFs. In winter they sleep in the camper, but in spring & summer they put up the tent in the backyard and hang out there for a couple days.

DS12 has recently joined Special Olympics and is in training to swim in the State games in May. He is learning to swim laps with a helper. So far he swims about 10ft, then turns around and swims the other way. We have to keep nudging in in one direction or the other.

 

[LuckyMamaInDE]

DsAlmost15:

Boy Scouts (Life)
school wind ensemble and marching band (trumpet)
Science Olympiad team
Mathletes team

Dd13:

ballet, 7.5+ hours/week in class plus performance rehearsals (Nutcracker in Dec, Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty/Alice in Wonderland/similar in spring)
Girl Scouts, same girls together since kindergarten!
school band (flute)
school choir
church cantor (leads congregation twice monthly)

Dd8

ballet, 1 hr weekly
Girl Scouts

Next year in third grade she is planning on trying out for the Science Olympiad team (elementary division A) and for the school choir. Those activities are held directly after school, which makes it easy for the driver

 

[MamaOfTwoPrincesses]

My 6 year old DD is in kindergarten. She takes ballet/tap and musical theatre She also is part of a troupe of K-1st graders called Broadway Babies. They learn a short musical revue and perform as the opening act for the mainstage shows at her theatre school. She loves to be on stage!

My 2 year old DD will likely follow in her big sister's steps, as she loves all of the things that she does. She goes to My Gym and she takes "fairytale ballet." (Sooooooo cute! ) She also attends a drop off preschool readiness class for 1.5 hours one day a week. Next year, she'll be in preschool 2 days a week.

 

[catkat629]

I thought my kids were busy, but maybe not so much. I joke with my husband that we can't have anymore kids because I don't have any time left to get them where they need to go! Luckily he works from home and is able to help!

DD4: Preschool, Gymnastics, Ballet

DD6: Art class (1x/wk), Gymnastics, Ballet (both once/wk), Brownies

DS9: Art class (1x/wk), soccer (3x/wk + game), Church class (1x/wk)

Sometimes I think it is a scheduling miracle to find time to do anything at all! I don't know how some of you do it. Both of my girls want to do Ice Skating lessons, we have done them before, but like I said it is tough to add anything else in. We also do swim lessons in the summer.

My son is often upset because there are only a couple of days during the week that he can have a play date!