After school and weekend activities

Were you taken to after school and weekend activities, like dance classes, brownies/guides, cubs and scouts, sunday school etc? 

I think they're a lot more common now, every child's life seems to be full of activities, but when I was younger there didn't seem to be so many and I was never allowed to go anyway.

Do you feel that lack of activities has held you back in some way, or did you dread being forced to go to them?

I'm really interested in how social groups and social skills develop as well as anything people learn such as music, dance, drama etc. How were these things introduced to you? For me things like singing and dancing were something people on telly did, not quite real and something that it never occured to me that I could do.

Parents
  • I think that this is/was more of a middle class thing.

    We were in slum housing as children moving on to council.

    I don't think it would have crossed my mother's mind to do this for us even when she noticed our existence. 

    My parents also couldn't have afforded it.

    Being painfully shy I would have hated it.

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  • I think that this is/was more of a middle class thing.

    We were in slum housing as children moving on to council.

    I don't think it would have crossed my mother's mind to do this for us even when she noticed our existence. 

    My parents also couldn't have afforded it.

    Being painfully shy I would have hated it.

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