DD has done swimming for the last three or so years. Only occassionally is there a complaint and that's usually just because it's cold. If we can't go (it's on a Friday afternoon so if we're going away for the weekend we do have to miss out), we usually get complaints from her and have to go for a swim over the weekend to make it up.

She started dancing this year and we've had a couple of times where there has been a slight clash with a party. She of course wants to go to the party, but we (mainly DH) insist on the dancing activity that she has committed too. She still gets to go to the party, but might miss the first 30 minutes. That is an activity that she has committed too, we check each term before committing to the next one, and the teacher relies on her. It's a shame that other kids aren't like that, there is supposed to be 7 in the class and I don't think there has been a single class they've all been there for.

She starts school next year.

Why are we doing the activities? Swimming, we live by the beach, it's an essential skill. Dancing, she always wanted to have music on and was setting up little dances herself and was asking to go because other day care kids were going.