Gymnastic Classes

Or piano, voice, religious school, jiu-jitsu, or t-ball. Or is that Wednesday? Between school and all the available extracurricular activities today, kids-even very young ones-can seem busier than their working parents. Of course, we all want our children to have every advantage we can give them, and so many of the activities which used to be offered in school have been eliminated by budget cuts. And, gone are the days of kids jumping on their bikes after school and roaming neighborhoods with their friends, until dinnertime-it just doesn’t seem safe, anymore. So we, as parents, feel obligated to provide supervised activities which not only benefit our kids, physically, but also round out their lives in ways we never could have imagined, when we were young. It can be challenging, Michael’s only seven, but he really enjoys soccer, and he’s good at it. And Michelle is nearly six, but all her friends are taking ballet, and she feels left out, if she doesn’t get to dance, too. But soccer’s …

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