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Originally Posted by Ksenia 
seeking input on Cirkids --
Would my almost-5-yo ds love it? Would it drive me crazy trying to entertain 2 yo dd during it? Should he register for "Lions" (after school) or are there homeschooler programs for 5 yos?
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yes, it's hard to entertain little ones in the cirkids room, but if it isn't pouring rain, you can head outside to the pond, etc. I always let my younger kid play on the equipment in the lion's den (the younger kid room) when the kids were up on the trampolines, but I got scolded a lot.
Lucy loved cirkids, dexter loved it for a while, but they have teenagers teaching the youngest group, which is a bad mix, in my opinion -- they just aren't skilled enough to deal with the young kids, though dex's group was only 4 kids, but kind of hard to manage. that may have changed, though... they're a great group of people, and it's a great program, but for the littlest kids, all they really want to do is trampoline, and all the rest is kind of too hard for a 5 year old.
I'd take W~ to the north van trampoline class, actually -- that school was started by the original founding members of cirkids, who left after some conflict or another... unicycle and juggling is too hard for kids that age, but trampoline, they LOVE!!! maybe do trampoline one day and gymnastics another day? I'd save actual "circus school" until they're at least 7 or 8... otherwise I think they can burn out, because it's too frustrating to do some of the skills when you just don't have the coordination yet...
it was reported positively, and tons of pics of nursing mamas!
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way to go lactivist mamas! 
: welcome tifille3
Oh, and I've covered up exactly ONCE, when DD was 10 days old and I was still having trouble latching without getting the whole boob out there and getting it all lined up.
