I meant to record what the girls do here in Jakarta for a while. Note that school is 15 min walking distance to our place, 10 min by car so commuting time is short, a privilege in Jakarta.
They go to school from 7:30am to 2pm.
Monday:
3-4pm: Sofia online mandarin lesson
2:45-3:45pm: Lizzy swimming lesson at our condo pool
4-pm: Lizzy online mandarin lesson
Tuesday:
6am: Sofia 20 min run
2:30-3:30pm Kumon both girls (20 min drive)
4-6pm piano at our place both girls
Wednesday:
3:15-4:45pm: Sofia swimming team at school
5:30-6:30pm: Sofia online mandarin lesson
Thursday:
2:10-3pm: Lizzy swimming team at school
2:30-3:30pm: Sofia kumon
3:30-4:30pm: Lizzy kumon
5-6pm: Sofia piano online with her manila teacher
Friday:
3:30-5pm: Sofia swimming team at school
3-4pm: Lizzy online mandarin
Saturday:
9-10am: Lizzy gymnastic at school
11-12pm: Lizzy golf group lesson
12:30-2pm: Sofia swimming team
Sunday:
7-8am: Sofia run with me
1-2pm: Sofia online piano theory.
Tennis and climbing if we don’t have other activities.
Every day except lesson days, Sofia practices 40 min piano, Lizzy 15-20min, and they do their daily kumon worksheets for reading and math.
We are privileged to be able do many of these activities at home (tennis, swimming, mandarin, piano) to avoid commuting time.
I know, they are pretty busy. Kumon, mandarin, piano, swimming (Sofia) are non-negotiable. Gymnastic, golf, tennis, climbing is optional and can be left out if they feel tired.
How do you organize/prioritize kids activities?
Our New Journey 
We are not in the heavy activity years yet, but will be pretty limited in what they can do since we just don’t have the capacity to drive them to lots of different things and don’t want to hire a nanny/driver. When Paul started K this fall, he’ll be in aftercare program since school ends at 2:30 but it sounds like there are lots of cool options through that, like Spanish, chess, mathletes, theater, etc. So a lot of their extracurriculars will happen there. Both boys are in gymnastics right now and hopefully by the fall the boys can take swimming lessons together as Will will be old enough to take classes without a parent. We also had Paul do an intro to soccer class that lasted 4 weeks last fall, so we’ll do something like that again this summer or next fall!
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Holy cow, they are busy!!! Lack of commute definitely is a good thing. The school swim team practices at your complex??
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Swim practice happens at school except Saturday that is in another bigger campus which is 20-30 min away.
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