What is your 14yo doing this summer?

[Anonymous]

DD has asked to not go to camp this summer (except for one week of sleep away). In years past, both DCs spent all summer at day camps because DH and I both work. I agreed with dd that she’s likely too old for most day camps, but she’s too young to work. What is your young teen doing while you all are at work? I don’t want her sitting around all day. When I asked her what she wanted to do instead, she said “IDK, practice doing my make up?”

[Anonymous]

Sports + a class + travel

[Anonymous]

Lots of swim practices and working (very part time) coaching/instructing swimming. So basically at a pool all day.

[Anonymous]

She wants to get a part time job. I only know apof a few local shops that will hire 14 year olds, so not sure how possible this is.

[Anonymous]

Try CIT at a camp. Great experience for my teen.
Look for one that either doesn't charge for CITs or has only a nominal fee.

[Anonymous]

Classes at Montgomery College.
Volunteering for SSL hours.
Travel type day camps where they go to amusement parks / top golf / etc every day.

[Anonymous]

An academic course at a college for a couple weeks and hopefully a few weeks of CIT.

I'd love to know where people have managed to arrange CIT confirmations already.

I suspect this is "planned" or "hoped for" activities that people are listing, OP.

[Anonymous]

DC Summer Jobs Program

[Anonymous]

I teach so I'm always home in the summer. Ironically my kids want MORE camp, but since I'm not earning money we only let them do 1-2.

So my 14 year old will be doing swim team, coaching the little swimmers who aren't old enough for swim team. Probably one 2-week day camp. And if we can figure out an overnight, one of those. Babysitting sporadically. Hanging out with friends.

[Anonymous]

Mine volunteered at the nature camp he used to attend. That and a one-week vacation.

[Anonymous]

Turning 14 in June. She’ll be taking honors Geometry from 8 until noon in summer school (special program for rising freshman) and doing taekwondo and training for cross country.

This is the first summer that she’ll be largely unsupervised. She’ll have to walk herself home from school (2 miles) and do her homework without me. She’ll also have to budget her time to get in taekwondo and get herself there as well as her running.

Fingers crossed!

[Anonymous]

Going to Nice, and working as a mother's helper/babysitter for a family we know.

[Anonymous]

OP here. So far we have one week of sleep away camp and one week of vacation. I’ve started looking at pre-college type programs at the local colleges and university so there are some possibilities. I suggested babysitting or working at the pool and she wasn’t too excited about those options. She’ll do swim team but that’s only on hour or so of practice in the mornings, and meets on Saturdays.

Volunteering is also a good idea. Just need to figure out what sort of volunteering she would be interested in. Part of the problem is transportation, since she’s too young to drive and DH and I both work full time.

[Anonymous]

A camp in Europe, Covid permitting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Going to Nice, and working as a mother's helper/babysitter for a family we know.

Oh bliss. I'd say get her to bring you back one of the small lemon trees they sell in the market in Nice, but I suspect it's not permitted.