Evening and weekend routines

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Hi,

My son's team has recommended that he have a set evening and weekend routines, and has charged me with the task of choosing the activities he will be engaged in, from the time he comes home from school till he sleeps. I don't feel comfortable with this, as I believe it will encourage rigidity in him, and at this moment - *knock on wood* - he is fairly flexible with what we do every day. Every evening, we do a few things, like dancing together, going to our local park, or just watching TV / music. The weekends, I just let him stim all day if he wants, as I know that his week can be overwhelming for him at times.

I need some advise on how to set up routines that will (a) not have too many activities but enough that his time is spent learning, and (b) not encourage rigidity. If you have ideas for activities that will help with language development, communication and motor skills, OR if you can share activities that you did as a child that you felt helped you gain skills while still letting you work at your pace / relax / did not overwhelm you, would you post about them, please ?

Well your way of doing things currently sounds great to me.
I'd say if you are going to introduce activities, to do it slowly. Like one at a time and maybe one a week.
Make it like something he is in on, rather than 'from now on you are doing this like it or not' (I'm sure you don't operate that way, just saying). I think basically the kind of stuff you do on weekdays, which all sounds great. And maybe like helping you bake cookies for motor skills. Or working with modeling clay. For language, maybe some voice activated software game? Have him make up stories and tell them to you or record them? One kid I know of helped develop language skills by narrating video games while he played them.