Cathy and JBDad, it's really the not wanting to take away from DS's free time that makes me hesitate to afterschool. He barely has enough time to run around the backyard....[edits]
We're with you on that. DS5.5 had a total tired-induced melt down this evening. Both boys were in bed at 6:30 and asleep by 6:35... And there was no time for anything.
Most of what we do is indeed informal and unstructured. But he's generally learning something new. It's not the same type of thing where we study something and then take a test. During the weekends when we have more time we might do something a little more structured like read from a geometry book or biology book. Before school started it seemed like we had TONS of time to do this. Now we barely have any time at all.
I know this will change though. He is only 5 1/2 and he's never fit that "doesn't sleep much" GT type. Quite the opposite. So we don't get as much outside time as we did during the summer. He does get gym and recess at school and we usually play a lot outside during weekends. Probably about the best we can do.
No worries on obesity with my kids though... I was skinny as a bean pole until I was about 25 and it looks like they have my genes on that one. Pretty sure they got their brains from their mom tho
JB
