4 yr olds

Especially if you are a stay at home mom/dad

How many activities do you have your child in at one time? What are they?

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My DS is 5 now, but when last year he was in:

Preschool 4 days a week for 2.5 hours a day
Swimming lessons once a week on Saturday
Fall/Spring he had soccer once a week on Sunday

I work full time, and my parents watched him 5 days a week. They drove him to/from preschool. I never scheduled him for more activities during the week 1) because my parents were already doing more than enough for me, and 2) I thought anything more would be too much for him.

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My twins will be 4 in a few days

DS is in basketball on Saturdays
DD is in dance on Fri afternoon.

They're in full day pre school 5 days a week.

Its honestly enough for them. By Fri night they are both in full meltdown mode.

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My son just turned 4. He's in full-day pre-k and that's it. Honestly, after shuttling his older sisters to dance, soccer, piano, etc etc...I just don't have any more time. When the older ones were 4, they both took dance 1x a week.

If he didn't do full days, I'd have him take swim lessons too--which I probably will anyway in the spring (and baseball, if he wants!).

4 yr olds

My DD will be 4 in March but she goes to Full Time Daycare (M-F, all day) and then she has Dance on Saturday Mornings.

4 yr olds

My son is in pre k 5 days a week for almost 3 hours a day. Come the new year we are going to do an 8 week indoor Soccer session with him on Sunday's and then tall in the spring which is one practice during the week and one game each weekend

4 yr olds

My DS is in Pre-K 5 days a week from 8-3.

My mom and MIL take and pick him up from school during the week and my mom watches DD who is 11 months.

They do enough and both have said they will not take him to any activities during the week. It's too much for them and we can't blame them.

So right now he does nothing but school. He actually has no desire to do anything. I've asked over and over and he says no. DH is adamant he join one thing in the spring that practices on the weekends or later on in the day/early evenings...so we'll see how that goes

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my DS turned 4 about a month ago. im a SAHM and hes my only child. so its definitely exhausting keeping him busy
He goes to preschool 3 AMs a week- so about 7.5 hours a week.
he was doing soccer for an hour a week, but that ended a couple weeks ago- so I'm looking to get him into something else.
we live in NJ and there are 2 gymnastics places near us that have "open play" times during the week. where you pay $8 for an hour, and the kids can just run around and use the equipment. there are no teachers, the parents just hang with the kids and help them out on the equipment. but he LOVES it!!!! especially in the winter when we can't go to the playground- its a great way to let him run around. I love it bc theres no commitment- if hes sick or we don't make it one week, no big deal.
other than that, we just do playdates, go to the library, stuff like that. I figure there will be enough time when hes older to be running him all over the place!

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DS is 4.5, and he goes to 4K five days a week from 8:20-11am. Other than that, he has nothing else going on.

We keep talking about getting him started in something, but we're getting ready to move OOT so that makes it difficult to commit to anything.

DD is 5.5 and she goes to Kindergarten all day until 3pm, and she has dance on Thursdays right after school for an hour. That's it for her.