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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most of the posts about kids "hanging out at the pool all day" are from SAHMs. My kids practically lived at the pool during the summer as teens. But I was at home. [b]There is no way I would have left a young teen at home all day every day for the entire summer.  That's way too much unsupervised free time.[/b] And that's when teens get into trouble. I will say that beginning around the summer before high school, my kids always had camps related to school activities - band camps, sports camps, etc.  Just as an example - My youngest is 15. This summer he has two weeks of marching band camp, a week of JROTC leadership camp, and week of music camp at an out of state college.  He is also spending a week with one of his brothers in Colorado. Add in our two week vacation and that's pretty much the summer. Most kids get pretty busy starting in high school. [/quote]

Completely agree with this.  I'm the PP whose DS started working at a camp at 13.  His options were get a (volunteer) job or help us figure out what camps he would go to instead.  His two completely unscheduled weeks are plenty, and I work at home for that last week. [/quote]

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