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Our son's afterschool program has lots of activities! That's been a lifesaver for us...

We have M's gymnastics class on Saturday mornings. And we'll probably do swim lessons on Saturdays this summer as well. There's no way we'd be able to fit it in during the week.

I know a good number of moms who have gone part time (myself included) to help accommodate the activities... But I also have friends who hire babysitters to get their kids to activities... You either have to do that or just stick to weekend and at-school activities.

The swim class we have N enrolled in is at 6:40 pm. They have classes til 8 pm on weekdays as well as Sat and Sun classes. I've been looking into gymnastics classes, and they have classes at 5:30 and 6:30 pm on weekdays, so it works with our schedules... and they have Saturday classes too (but I'd rather not enroll them in weekend classes just yet bc we like to do things together as a family).

Weekends, and if it really needs to get done during the week, like my son's weekly speech therapy, I am lucky to have my mother be able to take him.

LOs daycare already has dance, art, circle singing time, and will have gymnastics when she's older so I feel no pressure to sign her up for additional classes.

She'll need swimming lessons, but I'll do those in summer when I'm off work. When she's older, I might sign her up for a "real" dance class, but it would have to be at night, at 5 pm or later.

I wish more places offered weekend activities (looking at you, The Little Gym). We've done swim classes and lots of museums on the weekends but I would love to have an evening activity every once and a while. Our daycare does a lot of special things with them though - animal shows, kids' bands, etc.

@MoreCoffee: Does your Little Gym not offer Saturday classes? That's where my LO takes her gymnastics class on Saturday mornings.