Is it just me or does it seem very expensive to keep your kids in activities........
This summer the girls will be doing a ballet/tap/jazz class which cost $40 each and then they will be participating in a summer gymnastic/cheerleading workshop which is $55 each plus $35 each for ins. and both of these require outfits and shoes.....
My oldest son will be participating in his first ear of tackle football, hopefully thats all he wants to do that cost $55 plus I either have to buy the gear or rent itwhich renting will cost $40........
So anyhow just for those activities alone it will cost around $355 plus the girls tap shoes, ballet slippers, ballet outfits, cheer uniform, (they will be performing in each program) and the instructer for the cheerleading requires they even buy the shoes through them as well so they all match.......
This all seems so expensive and also doesn't even include if my 3 yr old who'll be 4 this summer wants to participate in anything........yes I know kids are expensive but these prices seeem to go up each year.....is it mean of me to ask each child to pick only one activity per season or is that holding them back? I know some of the girls friends do all kinds of things I want ours to as well but I do have 5 kids and it's ridiculous.......... ↓
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| Name: nicole76108 | Date: Apr 11th, 2008 5:44 PM |
| Damn that is alot of money. ↑ |
| Name: Opheiliamath | Date: Apr 11th, 2008 6:37 PM |
"This all seems so expensive and also doesn't even include if my 3 yr old who'll be 4 this summer wants to participate in anything........yes I know kids are expensive but these prices seeem to go up each year.....is it mean of me to ask each child to pick only one activity per season or is that holding them back? I know some of the girls friends do all kinds of things I want ours to as well but I do have 5 kids and it's ridiculous.......... "
Yea, it does seem expensive. I'm not worrying about that now because my son is not even a year old. I don't think its mean for you to tell/ask each child to just pick one activity per season. I don't believe its holding them back at all. Like you said you have 5 kids. Just try to make everything even. ↑ |
| Name: Opheiliamath | Date: Apr 11th, 2008 6:41 PM |
Also, what's with just hanging out for the summer?
I use to just hang out and hang with my friends. Meet up and just be a kid. Icecream, going to the park, going to the beach, hopscotch, water balloon fights.
It seem like kids have to be doing something these days and they just can't be. ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 11th, 2008 6:44 PM |
| Your right, it's a whole dif. breed.........I have found that my kids don't do many of the things my husband and I did growing up........and I think alot of it is keeping up w/ the jones ya know.......We've never been the kind of ppl to just fit in a cookie cutter world ya know what I mean......I'd like to think we color outside the lines, but some things I do want my kids to be able to do like the other kids ya know ↑ |
| Name: Opheiliamath | Date: Apr 11th, 2008 6:49 PM |
Yea, i hear you. You don't want your kids to feel left out, its tough.
How old are you? Did you do the whole hang out for the summer thing too? LOL ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Apr 11th, 2008 6:51 PM |
I am 26 will be 27 at the end of the year.....
Yes omg we were just let loose outside ya know....as long as we were home for dinner, lol you can't do that these days.......I always go out w/ my kids if they will not be playing in the backyard, we don't let the kids go to sleep overs.......a bit over protective I guess, but better safe than sry. ↑ |
| Name: Opheiliamath | Date: Apr 11th, 2008 6:57 PM |
I'm 23, 24 this summer.
Yup, be home for dinner, hahaha. And when I was 15 I get a summer job. The good old days. ↑ |
| Name: Opheiliamath | Date: Apr 11th, 2008 7:00 PM |
But times are changing you kinda gotta go with it.
Hope the kiddos have fun this summer. Try not to break the bank though. =) ↑ |
| Name: Loritolay | Date: Apr 13th, 2008 3:54 PM |
| My sister is a mom to 4 and she is having this same issue. She says its not just hard financially but its also hard to go to all of their games/recitals/meets...especially when their times overlap. She is always running around like crazy. How do you manage it? ↑ |
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