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

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool is opening, limited capacity

What state?

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Anonymous wrote:Is it that hard to take responsibility for your own kids?

While also working our FT jobs? Yes. Sure is.

Exactly. How the hell am I supposed to entertain my kindergarten and 2nd graders while I'm working all day?

Well, what are you dong with them now?

Dad (on admin leave b/c he can't telework) supervises online school, but he's going back to work next month. Once summer starts there won't even be school to occupy their time.

You can supplement at home. You can hire a high school or college kid to watch them.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it that hard to take responsibility for your own kids?

It is when both parents work full time and we aren't blessed with a nanny, you twit.

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Anonymous wrote:They will do what poor kids do every summer.

TRUTH.

You all really need to adapt and overcome. Use your bootstraps to pull out ideas for kids!

I think people whip have experienced ‘paradigm shifts’ are the ones who are more resilient with coping now. The ones who have led Lake Wobegon lives are discovering what life really is like for the rest of us and need our help in learning how to adapt and problem solve.

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I'm a teacher who works as an instructor for the Red Cross. We're currently not allowed to offer lifeguard training courses due to COVID and there's no date announced when we can begin training courses again. There are many town pools across the country that have started announcing they won't be opening their pools. I'm hoping things aren't the same here in MD. Staffing will be a real issue since we haven't been able to teach since mid March. I'm thinking pools might open in July but at that point, will the operating costs be worth the short season?

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Anonymous wrote:They will do what poor kids do every summer.

TRUTH.

You all really need to adapt and overcome. Use your bootstraps to pull out ideas for kids!

I think people whip have experienced ‘paradigm shifts’ are the ones who are more resilient with coping now. The ones who have led Lake Wobegon lives are discovering what life really is like for the rest of us and need our help in learning how to adapt and problem solve.

Maybe people like me who grew up poor can become life coaches for the new normal. I’ve been offering some advice for free on DCUM, but perhaps I should consider offering consultations over Zoom at $100 for 50 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool is opening, limited capacity

What state?

Georgia.

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Creek walks and deep woods hiking. Read books. Make phone calls and write letters. Clean and organize their rooms...hell, paint their rooms. Take an online class. Etc. Etc.

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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.

Where is this? Sounds lovely.

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Anonymous wrote:They will do what poor kids do every summer.

TRUTH.

You all really need to adapt and overcome. Use your bootstraps to pull out ideas for kids!

I think people whip have experienced ‘paradigm shifts’ are the ones who are more resilient with coping now. The ones who have led Lake Wobegon lives are discovering what life really is like for the rest of us and need our help in learning how to adapt and problem solve.

Maybe people like me who grew up poor can become life coaches for the new normal. I’ve been offering some advice for free on DCUM, but perhaps I should consider offering consultations over Zoom at $100 for 50 minutes.

I didn't grow up poor, but we definitely had lean times. I never had anything scheduled or planned for the summer. If I was in my house, my parents would make me work. I pretty much spent entire days in a creek or up in a tree alone or with friends. One summer, we turned a trash can -yes, a trash can- into a pool. Our kids will survive.

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Anonymous wrote:They will do what poor kids do every summer.

I still don't know how to swim.

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To be perfectly honest, I hated summer. You can always find something to do on a farm. Most of it is drudgery. School was a nice break from working.

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Anonymous wrote:Stay at home, watch TV, read, play in the yard, and play games like we did in the old days... especially if we were poor or middle class.

They will survive, and maybe become more creative.

I grew up poor, but I still could play with my friends, go to the city pool, ride my bike, go to the library, visit the free zoo and museums, and travel to my grandparents in New York every summer. I read a lot, but still remember some very long, boring days.

This is where creativity is born.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope that the kids will at least be able to roam the hood together

Yeah,and maybe jack a few cars and smoke some weed....

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

This