What is your 14yo/rising 9th-grade son doing this summer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't have a 14 year old...but could yours volunteer at some summer day camps? My oldest is only 8 so we aren't there yet. But I think if he's not old enough to get a job then he can probably volunteer at some day camps.

Great idea here.

[Anonymous]

NP here - I have a rising sophomore and one in college and just thought I'd mention this. Many places *require* that volunteers younger than a certain age (often that age is 14) be accompanied by a parent. No flaming please - it's not my idea - but this is what we found in place after place when my eldest was this age and trying to find a volunteer gig. You had to be 16 or older to volunteer w/o a parent present. This really limited the places he was able to volunteer. Some places will take the younger kids, but not many. I guess because they don't want to be seen as free child care for kids who may or may not be actually helping/working. The exceptions were CITs.