How do you handle summer planning for your kids?

[Anonymous]

Where are you op? I know people who just sign up for the same camp all summer at that age. Becomes like school/daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are you op? I know people who just sign up for the same camp all summer at that age. Becomes like school/daycare.

Are they open this summer? I normally sign up at this time but there is no information on 2021 summer camps at the school we used in the past.

[Anonymous]

Your child is 3. You need daycare. Daycare sounds worse than it is.

I’m a SAHM now but my first 2 were in daycare. They called it summer camp in the summer. My kids were enrolled the entire summer minus a week we went on vacation.

I have an almost 4yo. There aren’t many 3 camps. Just preschools with camps. As mentioned above, you should find a daycare.

When my kids were in daycare, I always said my kids were in preschool with extended care and summer camp. This mattered to me back then that there was a difference.

[Anonymous]

It's a real pain when the kids are preschool aged because as you said, a lot of places don't offer preschool-aged camps. You will probably need to mix and match a little, but at least under normal circumstances, there are camps that usually run 8-10 weeks to cover most of the summer. August is always really hard to find coverage for.

As someone else said, your best bet might be a nanny or babysitter for the summer. College students are often looking for this type of work (at least under normal circumstances -- not sure how COVID will impact it).

I've seen a number of camps that usually offer before/aftercare to fill the total day saying that they aren't offering it, which limits options further. Many only go 9-3 or 4.

Are you in MD, VA, or DC? (By the way, it gets much easier after they are older than 5 because there are way more programs)

[Anonymous]

Use daycare summer camp, it is not much fun, stay inside the building & schedule similar to regular school year, but it does the job.

[Anonymous]

Daycare center or in-home daycare for that age. We had a wonderful in-home that we loved and were lucky to find in my area.

[Anonymous]

OP - thankfully we had a nanny but friends used college aged kids (or older HS).

This year is much harder. We are taking younger cousins with us to the beach for 2 weeks to help out. My older nieces (college) are coming also for extra supervision. My mon and my aunt are watching their great nieces/nephews this summer to help out.

When I was growing up this was our family norm. We literally spent 2 weeks with our cousin cohort as various relatives throughout the summer. We are all dispersed farther geographically these days but looking forward to resurrecting the' family' camp.