After School Activities & Therapy

Does your child do after school activities or therapy? In elementary and middle school, my son did various activities and also had tutors from time to time. In high school MONK does not due to homework and down time that he requires to re-cooperate from the day’s ordeal at school. Some might find this rather strange, but there is no time for extra curricular activities for him during the school year. MONK knows his limits and weekends tend to fly by at a break neck speed before we know it. On Sunday, we go to early Mass (8 a.m.) and later we have CCD (Sunday School) where he helps his father teach 6th grade. By the time we get home, it is after 1 so most of the day is gone.

Needless to say, we’ve been asked what does he do? Well, take for instance this weekend . . . He has to study for a chapter test in Spanish (75 words and must know their definition, how to pronounce it, spell it, and what not), homework in Physics and Calculus (don’t even ask me what he’s doing in there because it’s waaaaaaaaay over my head), and identify all the countries in Africa for his Civics test on Tuesday.

Today’s kids have enough on their plate and dealing with ASD on top it can be overwhelming. Teaching your child stress management & relaxation techniques and knowing how much homework they can handle is vital so they can survive at school.



By the way, there are 49 countries in Africa. Can you identify where they are on a map and spell them correctly? I’m lucky if I can name and spell five.