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[quote=Anonymous]Summer. How else would you do it without them missing a ton of school in the US? As for programs/activities in the other country, that's not how people used to do it -- it would be more of a just go stay with the grandparents for 2 months -- type of thing. BUT honestly consider who they will hang out with/play with. If there are cousins and family friends and neighbors AND those kids will be ok with your kids tagging along (and no a 15 year old is NOT going to hang out with your 7 year old every day because your 7 year old is from America and/or needs to learn Spanish), then programs are not needed. If it really will be more of a -- hang out with the boring old grandparents/aunts/uncles and hope the 16 year old cousin gives your kid the time of day for 5 min per day, then yeah I think you enroll them in something there whether part time pre school or an activity or whatever. Most kids already don't love being away from their home, their friends etc. all summer -- esp if living conditions there aren't as comfortable as the US -- if you add to that -- you also have no one to play with/talk to, they will grow to hate it. Sure you can force them to do this for years because you're the mom and what choice do they have, but ultimately it'll back fire if/when they never want return to that country again as teens/adults.[/quote]

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