OMG only 3 days to go .....

[crazydaisy]

I'm with you here amfnc- children learn a lot outside the classroom and I don't mean in after school music, swimming, programming etc! I believe firmly that children need time for free play - mucking about in the garden or in their rooms, without a screen of course. This time allows them to develop their imagination and to relax after their busy structured day, however happily spent. It's so easy to over commit them as their successes in formal hobbies make us feel validated as parents. As do high scores in the eleven plus 'just for the sake of it' when we aren't going to apply to the relevant schools anyway.