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I guess it depends on what you consider normal. I could easily see myself enrolling my kids in, say, martial arts (3 sessions per week), music (1), and swimming
by johan_larson 12y ago
I guess it depends on what you consider normal. I could easily see myself enrolling my kids in, say, martial arts (3 sessions per week), music (1), and swimming lessons (1). That's less than one activity per day, making it very reasonable by my standards.
If there are no overlaps in times and nothing is within walking distance and the local buses aren't an option, that would be 5 trips per kid per week, so 10 or 15. I'd be looking to organize some sort of car pools with the other parents, at a minimum.
- pcurve 12y agoI know parents do these things with hope of raising well-rounded children, but I do wonder about their value when all parents are doing the same thing. There used to be more leeway to do other things before, but now many upper-middle class families are basically prepping their young kids for college admission, some without even realizing it.
- jmathai 12y agoI wish we hadn't come to a point as a society where we try and eliminate any amount of unstructured time for children. I'm not sure any of us know what the point of all these "activities" are.