What does your 13/14 yo do all summer?

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Anonymous wrote:7 weeks of sleepaway camp

Wow! I assume this is going to be expensive. How much a week on avg?

My kids' camp is about $2K/week once you factor in travel

Ours is $11,000 for 7 weeks.

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13 year old will get a couple of weeks to relax, then a couple of weeks at summer classes through FCPS, 3 weeks of vacation, and two weeks to relax before school starts again. Through the whole thing, she'll continue to have her violin lessons (including on vacation), and we do Khan academy for next year's math, so she's on auto pilot during the year.

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This is the age where overnight camp is ideal, IMO, but as PP's have pointed out, it's expensive. I went for 6 weeks when I was that age, and I think it cost $2-2.5k -- this was back in the 90's. That wasn't a small chunk of change even back then I was really privileged that my parents could afford it, but camp prices like college tuition have really gone up since. If I can I hope to stretch to pay for it for my kid when he's older and if he's interested though, because it was such a great experience.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the age where overnight camp is ideal, IMO, but as PP's have pointed out, it's expensive. I went for 6 weeks when I was that age, and I think it cost $2-2.5k -- this was back in the 90's. That wasn't a small chunk of change even back then I was really privileged that my parents could afford it, but camp prices like college tuition have really gone up since. If I can I hope to stretch to pay for it for my kid when he's older and if he's interested though, because it was such a great experience.

We do short - 3-5 day overnight sports camps. It is between $800-1K. It is crazy expensive but worth it even for a shorter time. No way could we afford that.

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Anonymous wrote:7 weeks of sleepaway camp

Wow! I assume this is going to be expensive. How much a week on avg?

My kids' camp is about $2K/week once you factor in travel

Ours is $11,000 for 7 weeks.

Why have a child?

It's not like parents who do this just ship their kids off and never think about them. I'm PP who went to camp, and I got a letter from one of them almost every day, and they visited once while I was there. I knew they missed me and cared about me. But kids that age aren't really interested in hanging out with their parents, though, frankly.

You are wrong. My children love to hang out with us and I remember hanging out with my parents at that age as well. It’s you who doesn’t want to hang out with your children.

It’s 7 weeks. My kids hang out with me the other 10 months per year. This is a few weeks they enjoy with their friends, other adults they have grown to know and trust, and they have an absolute blast. They love going back every year. It’s fine if that doesn’t work for your family/kids, but no need to insult others that make choices different from yours. Plenty of kids home all summer hate hanging out with their parents and generally just dislike their parents, plenty of kids hate sleepaway camp. Plenty of kids love their parents AND love sleepaway camp. You can’t draw any conclusions about strangers based on sleepaway camp

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He is doing a week of a half day coding camp, a week of sleepaway camp, and a few weeks of being a CIT. Other than that, Super Y in the evening and a tennis clinic for a few hours.

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My kids only go to sleepaway camp for 4 weeks, mainly because it is hard for me to justify the money that 7 weeks of camp would cost. Maybe if I loved them more, I would send them for 7 weeks.

People on this site are so judgmental. I went to sleepaway camp for 8 weeks as a kid and loved it - best thing my parents did for me. I am jewish and our kids go to a jewish camp, which helps strengthen their religious identify since they go to a school with few Jewish kids.

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Video games, mostly.

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Mine will do two weeks of a sports camp they chose, one week of theater camp, and also take an online language class.
They will also have a lot of downtime, which I think is well deserved. We ask a lot of kids and the middle school to high school transition is a big one, so I'm all in favor of time to relax as well.

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Ten days of family vacation
One week at Space Camp
Year round sport practice
One week of sports camp

Other than that, hopefully a lot of much deserved rest and time with friends.

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13 yo girl- 4 week session of overnight camp, 2 weeks with grandparents, 1 week specialty camp, 2 weeks family cottage trip.

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Those of you having your kids do summer school to get ahead, enjoy the mental health problems that lay ahead and no need to wonder why your kids will struggle so. Your answer is here.

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He does one week of basketball camp with his middle school team, one week of lacrosse camp (sleep away), one week of vacation, and the remainder of the summer he’s basically a swimming pool rat along with a dozen other boys from our neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you having your kids do summer school to get ahead, enjoy the mental health problems that lay ahead and no need to wonder why your kids will struggle so. Your answer is here.

Ha! Does it ever cross your mind that some kids want to get ahead? You must know kids like this. The ones who don’t need to be pushed, but work ahead easily and enjoy it. My own kid did summer classes to get ahead…PE and health…it wasn’t stressful whatsoever, and in fact it made her 9th grade year LESS stressful.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you having your kids do summer school to get ahead, enjoy the mental health problems that lay ahead and no need to wonder why your kids will struggle so. Your answer is here.

It's fairly common for rising freshmen and sophomores in FCPS to do this with PE and Health. It frees up a slot during the school year they can use for things they're actually interested in, and is not really hard to do.

My DD is the one that will do Khan Academy Geometry over the summer. I promise that 30 minutes a day of math is not going to create any mental health problems. There is still plenty of time for Tik Tok and hanging out with friends.