How many camps for rising 7th grader

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3 weeks of camp, 2 weeks of crew (mornings, rest of day free), and 4 weeks vacation (divorced parents, so 2 weeks each). She likes to have a lot of activities and keep busy.

What’s crew like at this age? I’ve been looking at a 2-week beginner’s crew camp for my kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I miss all the nothing I got to do as a child in the summer. There were activities and a family vacation, but nothing so structured as camps for half, let alone all day or sleep-away for me. And I was sick of that structure by the end of the school year.

It will likely never happen again. My kid is getting some extra music lessons and is otherwise free range - with limits on gaming and Internet time (with exceptions for truly awful hot days or other particularly bad weather).

Luckily he's a Calvin & Hobbes fan. Not that this will fill his summer - but I gave him the complete collection, he does spend hours on the floor leafing through and reading it. And reading other things... and getting inspired to make trouble outside.

See and I never did that as a kid. I always had camp until I was 14, when I worked two jobs all summer. But before 14, it was always a full summer of camp.

I've got the calvin and hobbes kid - I agree summer job is essential at right age. Camp if they want it. But I've come to appreciate lack of structure is a treasure (to figure out and create your own structure for). To each their own, not saying the OP or anyone else has to do it this way. I know some kids absolutely need the structure - or the parents do. But it can be an option in some circumstances!

[Anonymous]

By that age, the only camp my boys did was a week or two of a sport. The kids wanted unstructured downtime. We traveled a bit, played tourist a lot, and then they got together with friends here or there. There was always a contingent of kids who did 1-2 months of sleep away camp but otherwise most friends also had pretty unstructured summers.

[Anonymous]

Two weeks of over night camp and a week of cooking school “camp”

[Anonymous]

It depends. I require even my rising 9th grader to do half day camps or work as a CIT at half day camps. I found that when I left my kids with empty days, they were on electronics all day and did not comply with my rules (e.g., some reading, some exercise) unless I nagged them perpetually. I don't feel like doing that on top of work (I WFH), so we switched to requiring half days out of the house.

However, other kids may be able to better manage their time.

[Anonymous]

DS's summer:
- 4 weeks of half-day band camp (hopefully hanging out with friends and/or at the pool in the afternoon)
- 2 weeks no camp (family vacation for most but not all of that time)
- 2 weeks TIC camp (3/4 day, he loves it)
probably one week off the week before school starts. He's signed up for a camp that week but I'll probably cancel it and give him that week off.

[Anonymous]

8 weeks. We work and don’t need her on screens all day.

[Anonymous]

DD is doing 4 weeks of camp as a rising 7th grader. I’m home though. The good news is that finally some of her friends are home in the summer (thanks to WFH) whereas before they would have been at camp all summer because their parents worked.

[Anonymous]

7 weeks sleepaway camp, 2 weeks family vacation, 1 week visiting relative in another city (where there will be a week of tennis/golf day camp).