Selecting Children’s Curicurral and Extracuricurral Activities with a Support of a Decision Model

Abstract

The activities that we engage in out of our own pleasure offer us relaxation, help us develop skills, broaden our knowledge and give us new experiences. At the same time we meet people with similar interests and develop our personality. With those benefits in mind, schools and external youth organizations offer increasing number of extracurricular activities. It is up to the parents and their children to decide in which activity or activities they will invest their energy, time and money. This decision may not be easy as it is based on simultaneous judgement based on multiple criteria. Furthermore, involved may be multiple parties with different interests. Competent multiple attribute decision making model may help with such complex decisions thus help parents and their children to recognize suitable areas of interest and the right activity. Namely the activity that will bring joy to the child and be in accordance with parents’ financial and time constrains.