I don’t know if it’s chronic disorganization and poor time management skills (mine?) or the habit I’ve developed of avoiding socializing and social situations but I sometimes get hit with the feeling that my kids don’t do enough. And it’s all my fault. The smalls all take swimming lessons (17 completed the Red Cross Bronze Cross level and then decided against trying to qualify as a lifeguard, which, for the life of me, I still don’t understand and drives me just a little bit crazy), and 7 and 5 take Tae Kwon Do every evening from Monday to Friday. 3 goes to preschool two days a week. Baby girl hangs out with me and isn’t involved in any organized activities. 17 isn’t currently involved in any sports, but says sometimes that he’d like to play baseball again.
And no. They don’t play hockey. There. I said it. My kids don’t play hockey.
feel like there isn’t enough time for homework and dinner with just going to TKD every evening, so I’m not exactly certain where I would squeeze in any other activities, not to mention the money to pay for them, I just worry that they need to take piano lessons, tennis lessons, Balinese art lessons, hell, I don’t know, but shouldn’t they be doing something else?
This is a quandary I won’t be solving today, and may never solve, but I don’t have any time left right now to worry about it. I allocated five minutes to think it over today and my time is up. I have a mountain of laundry to fold, dinner to make, kids to chauffeur, feed, bathe, read to and tuck in. Could I make (create, invent, extract) some time somewhere for piano lessons? I really like to think that I could. But not today.
See? I am getting better at this time management schtick.