Sunday, September 16, 2007

Over scheduled

I used to say, that I would never let my kids have more than one activity after school, that we would have to rush around to do. Of course when you say never, you know that you will almost always eat your words. I promised Emma that when she turned 5 and started kindergarten, she could start ballet. Of course at our dance school, you can take 2 classes for the same price. After her 2 dance classes we head across town to soccer practice. She loves all of her activities, but we do not get home until 7:45pm. It is a tough day for my sweet little girl, she comes home and crashes hard. I told myself that after watching others run around town with their kids activities, that it was too much for the little ones, but now I am doing the same. Is it wrong to over schedule your child? Am I teaching her to work herself to hard when she is older? Am I going to burn her out on ballet, jazz and soccer? This is one part of motherhood that challenges me. I will post pictures of Emma in her ballet stuff next week. As of right now, she will not let me take her picture in it. She said she has not had enough classes to be a ballerina yet. Tomorrow starts another week of being over scheduled, at least until soccer is over!

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