Parents face dilemma over whether to enroll children in extracurricular activities

Kristi Murie poses for a photograph with her daughter, Ashley, outside Centennial arena in Etobicoke, Ont., on Sept. 3, 2020.Ashley Murie isn’t in Girl Guides or swimming lessons any more. The 11-year-old’s only extracurricular activity, the only thing she wants to do, is ringette, a sport she began playing nearly five years ago.

Whether families enroll their children in extracurricular activities will depend largely on their tolerance for risk and anxiety levels, says Dr. Mark Tremblay, director of healthy active living and obesity research at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. With many children grouped in to cohorts at school, enrolling them in extracurricular activities means there will be “bubbles overlapping with bubbles and all of a sudden the exposure is that much greater,” he says.

If it wasn’t for COVID-19, Valerie Smith’s two children, ages 4 and 2, would be in swimming and skating this fall. But she won’t be signing them up because of the health risks. “I’m anticipating a maximum of 50-per-cent enrolment if people actually start coming out in the fall,” he says.The skating camps being run in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick by Andrews Hockey this fall are “almost full,” says executive director Brad MacKenzie.

“We want them to be physically active,” he says. “And I think it’s important for them to get back to their norms. This gets them back a little bit to where they left off, and back to life as normal as possible.”

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