Here is our summer schedule: Monday- Thursday 10:00-10:30 Swim lesson at the Club pool and then swim with friends and brother until about 12:30. Home for some reading and Math 12:30-3:00 (and because it is HOT) and then play with neighborhood kids until about 7:00.
Also ,we have Tennis Lessons at the club (private school kids) on Monday and Wednesday from 5:15-6:00.
We have Boy scouts (public school children) on Thursday evenings from 7:00-9:00.
We travel to a summer home where he will play with children he has known all his life, on the beach most of the day, playing Bingo and watching movies at a clubhouse from 7:00-9:00.
On the weekends, at home at summer home we have various friends or neighbors over to play, and on days that we are not swimming or in the winter we have the following schedule: Mondays is chess club
Tuesday is art lessons
Wednesday is explorer's club meetings
Thursday is construction club meetings
Friday is park day at the playground.
BTW- These are group activities and our Homeschool groups has 250 families- so various number of children show up. We also have the opportunity to join science fair clubs, bowling, and field trips every week.When we have time we join in.
My son has attended two science fair competition with upto 100 participants, had a stepping up ceremony for going itno second grade, attended a generational fair with a retirement community and groups of Boy and Girl Scout groups, attended fairs and festivals in our city... Trick or treated with the neighborhood kids, chased the ice cream truck all around the block with the neighbor, watched Sponge Bob Square Pants with a group of neighborhood kids and built three forts outside -for boys only.
This school year my son has played T-ball, and soccer on teams and has taken ice skating lessons with public school children.
He also takes community art classes and sculpting classes. We attend classes at museums and go to functions at our Country club and around town for children.
We see children from all walks of life and we befriend many of them.
My son has been to two Boy scout emcampments , this year, with all sorts of kids.
Next year he will take Chinese lessons with one of his friends from Boy scouts ( A group of public schooled children). He will enroll in Music Composition classes,and we will continue our volunteer work at the veteran's home.
We have been in this town for 1 year and this year my son had 26 children at his birthday party. We had a Halloween party, an Easter Egg hunt and we have various little gatherings.
I also teach an American history class in my home twice a month for 1st and 2nd graders.
Does it sound to you as the only people my children see is MoM?
Think again I know I have missed some things. Don't feel sorry for my kids they are just fine.
You elaborated enough to make sure I know how privileged and affluent your family is, and I'm happy that your kids are so well cared for. And just for the record, I wasn't feeling sorry for your kids at all, so get over yourself.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do not envy you that kind of a schedule - I sure wouldn't want it :)
I will warn you though, you are going to bring the anti-homeschoolers out upon you because of your references to the "Club" and the "Country Club" - you know the old "only rich people can afford to homeschool" crowd.
My daughter will be taking swim lessons again this year at the "club" but we're not members - lessons are open to non-members and then we go to a friend's for swimming the rest of the day. The lessons at the swim club are about half the member price of the lessons at the YMCA and the group is also about half the size. We haven't joined either the swim club or the Y because both are a good 30 miles away - the beach is less than 15, we have friends with pools and we're going to get one.....so why bother.
There is heavy cloud cover tonight - so we were spared the demand of hauling the telescope out onto the deck tonight - I do not share hubby's thing about stargazing - luckily for him the almost 7yo does.
Homeschooled children miss out on very little, except some types of school sponsored stuff - but if my kid and most of her friends are any indication, lots of kids in public schools are doing just fine :)