Hello. Today I'd like to speak about for me quite current topic – about activities for children. As you know, I've got a 3-year-old son and, of course, I don't want him to be only at home with me or in the kinder garden where he just started going, I would like also for him to have some different activity to get know others, other children and, you know, different kind of hobbies and surrounding, and different opportunities than I can give him only at home. So that's truth that when he was born, I was actually not thinking about it much. But later I started going with my friend and with her daughter who is at the same age for some baby exercises. It was really quite good but especially for us, mothers, that we were not separated being alone at home, for children, surely, it was also having some influence but not so much, I believe. A year later we started going for so much popular swimming these days it is really very, very popular as I have heard. And we were attending the courses for swimming probably a year and half – quite a long time, my son loves water, definitely, he enjoyed all the lessons, the teacher was very nice, we liked the lessons, the timing was quite good, no problem. Just last January when I was already pregnant with twins, my son started to be a little bit disobedient, and he started to run away from the water which was quite a problem during, you know, the swimming lessons. The lessons are, definitely, not long. It takes only 30 minutes so that's not so long for children to be obedient but probably my son was thinking a lot also about future changes for me and it was more difficult for him. So, we rather gave it up, yeah, we stopped going there and we decided that now from September he should start some new activity. Yeah, we decided to join some group of Sokol in Pečky and he would like to attend some exercises there. I believe that there is going to be some … some like … actually I don't know I have never been, you know, there but I have been in Sokol in Kolín with him and he liked it there. We were actually running around, doing activities together, playing some games, yeah, ... and parents were quite standing aside so children were not like afraid because parents were still very near so it was very good, I believe and children were very sufficient that they saw us there all the time. So, I believe that it will be something similar like that.
But I would like to tell is that nowadays there is a habit that all parents want to put their children to, according my opinion, too many activities like: Monday some sport activity, on Tuesday, for example, flute, then probably singing and then there can be some dancing class, I am really surprised how many activities children get from parents. And for you to understand well, we really speak about very small children who still don't even attend primary school or even being at the primary school I think it is too much really to have three, four activities a week. I think children should also, of course, study not only because of good marks but because of regime – to really get to used to studying itself, yeah, because then it can be really a problem to sit and concentrate and do the homework and so on. Yeah. That's not connected only with studying but also with work later. I believe if students can't learn it already at this early age, they can have problems at work with work in the team. Yeah.
So, I just wanted to tell that I am definitely for activities for children because when I was small I had no possibilities like that. Just there was one activity I had heard there were karate lessons two villages away and I really wanted to devote to karate because my cousin did and he was really good. He was also at some championship matches and he was really good at it. But my parents thought that it was too far, you know – two villages. You know, that was different time, I understand and they were probably afraid to let me go by bus. Yeah.
So I just wanted to tell that I am going, definitely, to support my children completely just not having three or four activities a week or as my husband did that was another extreme. He used to play basketball. Not like professionally, but their team was very good and they won very times and they were really getting better and better, and they attended really many competitions, but it meant, of course, training four times, five times a week and matches at the weekends. That's definitely nothing for me, yeah, and I hope that my children will not insist on anything like that. That's all.