Summer plans

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Similar age kids and similar plan. My kids don’t get bored in the summer, nor do they spend much time on screens. They do swim team, go to the pool with friends most days, we visit museums, go hiking, travel to see family for 1-2 weeks, etc. Plus now the older one has 3 weeks of band camp (& took an online class last year).

There’s never enough time to do everything they/we want to do, especially with summer break getting shorter in our school district.

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three weeks of sleepaway-$5000.
two weeks of Calleva-I think it was $1100

And I still have to get some coverage for an additional two weeks

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Anonymous wrote:75k for us . Trust the process

Wow! What does this include?

It includes their children not living at their home for most of the summer. Not what I have in mind.

Don’t be jealous

NP. The pricey sleepaway camps are like $15-16K for 7 to 8 weeks. Even if the PP is doing that for all three of her DCs. that's more like 50k. I'm curious about the 75k too!

I work full-time...

My 10 yo DD (rising 5th grader) will be doing 4 weeks of sleepaway camp (which she looooooooooooooooooves to the point of being somewhat obsessed with) for $7,500, and then three weeks of a park district swim + art camp for $1,200.

My 6 yo DD (rising 1st grader) will be doing 6 weeks of a private day camp (which she looooooved last year) for $6,000. I realize that this is ridiculously expensive for day camp, but it includes round trip bus transportation that picks up/drops off at our front door, and those bus trips essentially double as before and aftercare (day is from 8:45 to 4:30 with bus) which is enough coverage for us. She also gets daily swim instruction and daily free swim period, a very small camper group, tons of fun specialty activities, outside vendors who come do performances and activities, use of beautiful grounds and outdoor spaces, etc. She will have several good friends in her camper group.

Remaining weeks will be some nothing-fancy travel (drive to rented beach house with cousins), some time spent at pool or outings with either myself or DH who will each take some days off, and also some days entertaining themselves at home while I WFH.

Maybe it includes airfare if it’s an international camp? Or it includes expensive activities like equestrian?

My kids are going to two sleepaway horseback riding camps (one in our home state, one across the country) plus doing shows away and I don't think we're spending $75k on all of that...

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Yup. Paying for a pool membership and doing day trips to things that are free.

Sounds boring AF for that 14 year old to spend their fifth summer in a row with nothing to do but hang with their mom doing the same crap they’ve done the last four summers.

What 14-year-old would want to be in a day camp instead of hanging out at the pool with their friends

+1 My kid has scheduled activities all the school year. During summers they are only required to keep up with instrument and accelerated math practice and both activities can be done at home in their PJs. They dont have to do camps and classes if they don't want to. And most of the time they don't want that.

Great example of the unlimited screen time mentality I see all the time.

Great example of a typical DCUM wanker who thinks that a kid who isnt in structure activities 24/7 will be killed by a screen. That post didnt even mention screens!

At least you don't bother to deny it.

NP. The PP was correctly pointing out that screen time was never mentioned in that post. Both of your replies are nonsensical.

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2 kids. We'll travel for 3 weeks (not all in one chunk), and do camp for another 2. The rest of the time we have a babysitter who will take the kids to the pool and library. I can reduce my work hours for a few weeks, but not the entire summer and we absolutely need full coverage for the month of August.

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Yup. Paying for a pool membership and doing day trips to things that are free.

Remember to factor in the cost of lost wages for the SAHM not working

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Yup. Paying for a pool membership and doing day trips to things that are free.

Remember to factor in the cost of lost wages for the SAHM not working

DP here, I haven’t worked in so long that “cost” is negligible thank goodness!

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Yup. Paying for a pool membership and doing day trips to things that are free.

Remember to factor in the cost of lost wages for the SAHM not working

That’s…clearly already been worked out in the budget. My god.

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Yup. Paying for a pool membership and doing day trips to things that are free.

Remember to factor in the cost of lost wages for the SAHM not working

That’s…clearly already been worked out in the budget. My god.

+1 I haven’t worked out of the home in 15 years. I’ve now been at home longer than I worked. We have our summers down to a science, even if they’re a little boring. Pool membership, playdates, day trips here and there, and a week of beach vacation.

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Yup. Paying for a pool membership and doing day trips to things that are free.

Remember to factor in the cost of lost wages for the SAHM not working

That’s…clearly already been worked out in the budget. My god.

+1 I haven’t worked out of the home in 15 years. I’ve now been at home longer than I worked. We have our summers down to a science, even if they’re a little boring. Pool membership, playdates, day trips here and there, and a week of beach vacation.

Self-employed, and same. As the kids get older they want more flexibility and fewer day camps.

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Yup. Paying for a pool membership and doing day trips to things that are free.

Remember to factor in the cost of lost wages for the SAHM not working

That’s…clearly already been worked out in the budget. My god.

+1 I haven’t worked out of the home in 15 years. I’ve now been at home longer than I worked. We have our summers down to a science, even if they’re a little boring. Pool membership, playdates, day trips here and there, and a week of beach vacation.

Yep. That was true for me when my oldest was 4.

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Yup. Paying for a pool membership and doing day trips to things that are free.

Remember to factor in the cost of lost wages for the SAHM not working

That’s…clearly already been worked out in the budget. My god.

+1 I haven’t worked out of the home in 15 years. I’ve now been at home longer than I worked. We have our summers down to a science, even if they’re a little boring. Pool membership, playdates, day trips here and there, and a week of beach vacation.

Yep. That was true for me when my oldest was 4.

And honestly, even though our summers aren’t as adventurous, my kids love them. We all love the downtime and hanging at the pool. My kids have never been camp kids. I only did the day camps when they were really young and it was harder to have them home all day because they were so needy. Because I’m a SAHM, we also have to watch what we spend. I can’t just send mine to camps for $1,000s of dollars. I wish I could at times! But they really do like being at home better I think.

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Similar age kids and similar plan. My kids don’t get bored in the summer, nor do they spend much time on screens. They do swim team, go to the pool with friends most days, we visit museums, go hiking, travel to see family for 1-2 weeks, etc. Plus now the older one has 3 weeks of band camp (& took an online class last year).

There’s never enough time to do everything they/we want to do, especially with summer break getting shorter in our school district.

Sounds like our summer although they have 3-4 weeks of day camp. Looking forward to it!

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids at home all summer. Zero camps. I am a SAHM. Kids are 11 and 14. 5th summer in a row now.

Yup. Paying for a pool membership and doing day trips to things that are free.

Sounds boring AF for that 14 year old to spend their fifth summer in a row with nothing to do but hang with their mom doing the same crap they’ve done the last four summers.

What 14-year-old would want to be in a day camp instead of hanging out at the pool with their friends

+1 most 14 year olds don’t want to be in camps.

Unless they are specializing in something then they do. Ballet intensives are necessary to keep up. Depending on location and school it’s about $6,000 with housing.
My daughter is going to a basketball day program which is $650 a week x 5 weeks.

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There is no one more annoying at the pool than teens who are too young to work or drive but too old to go to camp. They are the bane of my existence. Parents, if you are allowing your kids to do this, please go over common courtesy with them and how to behave in a shared space environment.