What does your child do this summer other than camp?

[Anonymous]

What does it mean with PP here says their kids are in swim team? I don't think we are talking about 1:1 lesson or group lesson. Are you talking about it has to be at least swim 2-4x/week in a group and shoot for competition for speed within the group or outside group competition?

[Anonymous]

Vacation, some tutoring (DC is dyslexic) and otherwise this summer just hanging out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does it mean with PP here says their kids are in swim team? I don't think we are talking about 1:1 lesson or group lesson. Are you talking about it has to be at least swim 2-4x/week in a group and shoot for competition for speed within the group or outside group competition?

I'm a PP who said my 6 yo kid started the summer on swim team. It's daily practice + weekly meets. We just can't keep up with the practices and kid has no interest in meets yet. He did group lessons last summer at 5.

[Anonymous]

My 6 yo son is in a variety of fun non-academic camps, 2 of which of swim lessons during camp.

He just finished K at an immersion school, so we saved all his "words" from last year and are language games casually at home, but that's it. Camp with after care from 8:30-5:30 each day is tiring, let the kids relax.

[Anonymous]

DC6 and DC8
- Mathnasium twice a week
- Hebrew reading practice of 1 paragraph per day at home
- Jewish stuff, Hebrew and English

DC4
- chess once a week
- Hebrew reading practice daily, just a few words
- Jewish stuff, English only


I also have a DC1 whom I am trying to teach not to throw his food.

[Anonymous]

7 y/o
camp
1x/week swim lessons
2x/month language lessons

Its plenty for us.

[Anonymous]

Oh wow, that's a lot.

My 5yo is doing a nanny share, one week of dance camp, and weekly swim lessons. We're also traveling a decent amount. I'm doing some daily academic stuff because she likes it and it gives days structure -- just some simple literacy and math games with some materials I bought online. We stocked up on art supplies and outdoor toys. That's it.

I cannot imagine that next summer we would be doing daily swim lessons or more intensive camps. We might step up the academic stuff and do weekly dance lessons on top of camp, if she likes it? That's about it. I'm pretty happy with the balance we strike between structure and unstructured time. I think kids get a ton of structure during the school year and that it's healthy to use the summer to teach them to be bored and to entertain themselves.

We limit TV access and DD does not have a device, so we don't worry about her just sitting around playing games or watching TV. She's never had lots of screen access so it's not hard to limit it. In the summer we mostly use it to facilitate breaks for ourselves during vacations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! OP’s friend must be very rich. I have a 6 year old as well and she’s doing two weeks of 4 times a week swim lessons. We have some vacation planned and she’s also doing two weeks of camp. That’s it. I take my kids out to playground, nature centers, and to be honest, running out of places to go as it is so exhausting to schlep a 6 and a 4 year old out.

+1

We don't have that kind of money and I'd rather save money for when DC is older and will need/want more summer activities. I do wish we could do swim lessons more than once a week. But we are trying to supplement with plenty of pool time evenings and weekends to practice swim skills with us. Also we have a couple vacations planned with lots of pool time, in August, which should help as well.

[Anonymous]

11:51 PP again

DC4, DC6, and DC8 are all in daycamps because DH and I both work. They swim and play sports and do some art and craft stuff, sing songs and do cheers. None of the camp portion of their day is even a little bit academic.

[Anonymous]

OP, I recognize your writing, you really, really need to stop constantly asking comparison questions on this site. Your child/ren are fine, you need to calm down and stop comparing your son to everyone else. Please step away from this website.

[Anonymous]

My kids are in camp every day. One kid has tutoring 2x a week, the other does not. They have swim lessons 1x a week. That's it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know someone that has 6 year old boy ( same age same my DS) does 4 times swimming per week ( in swim team), twice a week piano with a tutor, once a week with a tennis instructor, and goes to after school care that provide academic enrichment/sports during school year. He is going to a summer camp that provides second language/academic enrichment/sports. Wow wow…… he seems to like it a lot, and it seems there are a lot of money spent. I never realize that that boy is so busy with so many activities. We are trying to schedule a play date, and that’s how I find out that boy’s schedule.

My DS6 is a math nut (spring map math score is 215), reading level is okay (probably level M or level), going to be a first grader in the fall ( same as that boy). Omg….after finding out that boy’s schedule, I feel like I should do something for my DS. This summer, he is at an outdoor camp that kick some ball, play with splash (can’t swim), run around during the week (8am to 6pm) , and watches many hours on screentime on weekend. Should I do some academic enrichment ( math, reading or writing) at home or sign him up with something to learn something new or find a tutor or let him just watch screentime ?

Level M as a kindergartener? Wow. You must be doing a lot even if youre acting like you dont.

Indian that’s why

Is this OP?

[Anonymous]

My boys are 9 and 3. DH and I work full time. Summer is 12.5 weeks this year. The kids are in three different day camps for a total of 10 weeks. And they are both exhausted after camp. So that's all we're doing this summer.

If one of them was really into a sport, instrument, etc., I'd consider making time for that. But neither boy has found a passion in that vein yet.

[Anonymous]

My 7yo is running a Rainbow Loom factory in her bedroom this summer while Dad teleworks. She's happy and I guess working on her fine motor skills.

[Anonymous]

Camp some weeks, some weeks with grandparents having down time, family time at neighborhood pool on weekends. Reading before bedtime.

Different things work for different families.