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After school and weekend activities

TheCatWoman

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.

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  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    It could well be a class thing and an age thing too, my parents always said they couldn't afford it, but that always felt like an excuse, as most of the other children at school did afterschool stuff, at least brownies and guides.

    I think I would have felt the same thing about not fitting in anywhere, but I wasn't given the opportunity to find out, it did make me stick out at school when other's were talking about things that I couldn't share or even have any knowlege of.

    I think with my parents, it was more my Dad having a massive fear of any outside influence, he didn't really like me going to school, or bringing friends home, most of my friends were disaproved of and criticised and used as lessons in how not to behave. When I was avbout 12, I was diagnosed with depression, the doctor said it was because I had no friends or social life outside of going to school. I was allowed out after that, but not often and it was something that would be banned for any minor infraction of any rules, until the depression returned and the doctor told him to let me out again.

    I've always wondered what life would have been like if I'd have been better socialised as a child and allowed to do things that others did. Would I have hated stuff? Possibly, Would I have better social skills? I don't know. Would I have been encouraged more and had any talents spotted, almost certainly.