What the heck are our kids going to do this summer with no camps and no pools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We had no pool and not a single organized camp/event during the whole summer. We played with kids on the street and became very creative.

Key phrase here is “played with kids in the street.” That won’t be allowed this summer, most likely.

It is already going on.

Who is going to stop it? I see kids playing together everywhere.

Agree. It’s already happening, and I hope it keeps happening. We could use a 1960s summer in lieu of all the structured activities. It does lower transmission risk if you’re playing with the same 10 kids every day vs. going to camp with 100.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am still holding out hope that it will be ok for kids to play together in the neighborhood over the summer. Frankly, I think they better get it in outdoors over the summer. I hope I am wrong but I can’t imagine the winter being better in terms of seeing friends.

Mine are already doing it. I have ceased to care. Based on my 12 year olds social media a lot of kids are. Kids are out together en force - on bikes, sometimes wearing masks their parents probably made them wear, but it’s happening and summer no ones going to even try. Lol.

Even my older neighbors who I would have pegged as strict distancers are having yard parties “6 feet away”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine would play in our pool, watch movies, play outside, read, play on the computer, ride bikes, run through the sprinkler, chase lighten bugs, build forts, ride 4-wheelers, ride horses, mess with the animals, play with cousins who live on the same large property, play in the creek, catch crawdads, eat, make bon fires and s’mores, camp in the yard, ..... so many wonderful summer memories! Of course, travel, visits with friends, the community pool, movie theaters, etc. wouldn’t happen. But they would have had a very relaxed summer. They are grown now. Hopefully, at some point in late summer they’ll be able to come home. They still love to do all those things.

Yeah most people don’t have these options.

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Congressional School is offering an online summer academy for two week sessions, 2-hour daily sessions in math, writing, or Spanish, etc. I am considering that for my kids (11 & 13) as a way to engage them a little academically during the summer. And then my son won’t be on Fortnite all day (kidding, sort of).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am still holding out hope that it will be ok for kids to play together in the neighborhood over the summer. Frankly, I think they better get it in outdoors over the summer. I hope I am wrong but I can’t imagine the winter being better in terms of seeing friends.

Mine are already doing it. I have ceased to care. Based on my 12 year olds social media a lot of kids are. Kids are out together en force - on bikes, sometimes wearing masks their parents probably made them wear, but it’s happening and summer no ones going to even try. Lol.

Even my older neighbors who I would have pegged as strict distancers are having yard parties “6 feet away”

+1000. I can’t believe everyone who thinks this will all carry on through summer. It’s already basically done where I am - the street full of kids looks like 1985.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine would play in our pool, watch movies, play outside, read, play on the computer, ride bikes, run through the sprinkler, chase lighten bugs, build forts, ride 4-wheelers, ride horses, mess with the animals, play with cousins who live on the same large property, play in the creek, catch crawdads, eat, make bon fires and s’mores, camp in the yard, ..... so many wonderful summer memories! Of course, travel, visits with friends, the community pool, movie theaters, etc. wouldn’t happen. But they would have had a very relaxed summer. They are grown now. Hopefully, at some point in late summer they’ll be able to come home. They still love to do all those things.

Yeah most people don’t have these options.

You can get a fire pit at Walmart. But it sounds like PP lived on a farm, so that’s not realistic anyway

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Anonymous wrote:There are hundreds big thousands of families with no income coming in, very little food. Nobody gives a damn whether your precious snowflakes don't get to go to camp this summer!!!

+1 I lived in a city for a few years where the avg hhi is 37k (In the US). That will be even lower this year.

[Anonymous]

Here’s what we’re going to do:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcm-tOGiva0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am still holding out hope that it will be ok for kids to play together in the neighborhood over the summer. Frankly, I think they better get it in outdoors over the summer. I hope I am wrong but I can’t imagine the winter being better in terms of seeing friends.

Mine are already doing it. I have ceased to care. Based on my 12 year olds social media a lot of kids are. Kids are out together en force - on bikes, sometimes wearing masks their parents probably made them wear, but it’s happening and summer no ones going to even try. Lol.

Even my older neighbors who I would have pegged as strict distancers are having yard parties “6 feet away”

+1000. I can’t believe everyone who thinks this will all carry on through summer. It’s already basically done where I am - the street full of kids looks like 1985.

Where is this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are hundreds big thousands of families with no income coming in, very little food. Nobody gives a damn whether your precious snowflakes don't get to go to camp this summer!!!

Sorry but do you not understand that for many of us, especially single parents, no place to send our kids this summer means we can't work and then will have no income coming in?

[Anonymous]

I’m from a second world country, from a poor family by American standards, but middle class by that country’s standards. I’ve never been to a summer camp of any kind and I was 19 when I first went to the pool. I read a lot of books and played in the yard. When I got my first computer in the last grade of high school I was thinking - where can I find so much free time with so many exciting stuff I can do with it now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are hundreds big thousands of families with no income coming in, very little food. Nobody gives a damn whether your precious snowflakes don't get to go to camp this summer!!!

Sorry but do you not understand that for many of us, especially single parents, no place to send our kids this summer means we can't work and then will have no income coming in?

Send them to visit family. That’s what poor working parents did in the 50s, 60s, 70s.

If you’re not poor - hire a full-time sitter and stop complaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are hundreds big thousands of families with no income coming in, very little food. Nobody gives a damn whether your precious snowflakes don't get to go to camp this summer!!!

Sorry but do you not understand that for many of us, especially single parents, no place to send our kids this summer means we can't work and then will have no income coming in?

Send them to visit family. That’s what poor working parents did in the 50s, 60s, 70s.

If you’re not poor - hire a full-time sitter and stop complaining.

My parents are dead. I'm an only child and I'm a single mom. Who is going to take care of my kid? Or should I just leave my 7 year old home alone all day when I have to go back to work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s sad that your kids can’t function without scheduled activities.

Wtf? The kids are in lockdown. Get off your high horse.

[Anonymous]

You cant visit family in a pandemic, you righteous dipshit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are hundreds big thousands of families with no income coming in, very little food. Nobody gives a damn whether your precious snowflakes don't get to go to camp this summer!!!

Sorry but do you not understand that for many of us, especially single parents, no place to send our kids this summer means we can't work and then will have no income coming in?

Send them to visit family. That’s what poor working parents did in the 50s, 60s, 70s.

If you’re not poor - hire a full-time sitter and stop complaining.