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[quote=Anonymous]I often feel this way and it's without other kids to juggle.  No doubt some of it because I'm a single parent and I have only so many hands, and lots of other must dos.  I've arrived at being very blunt about it, after taking a while to learn what was realistic for me to accomplish and not, and the fact that getting a list of things to do, even with a "try as much as you can" just made me feel like cr*p because it wasn't ever going to happen.  I've settled for "Look, I'm a single parent with limited time and resources.  I've learned we can manage, at best, to do ONE thing a week to support the session.  Please tell me which ONE thing you'd like us to do as a priority right now.  Also, this lovely little newsletter of ideas is great, but unless you hand me a prepackaged bag of supplies for XYZ activity, I can promise you it's never happening.  That's just reality."  We almost always get the one thing, versus a list, now.  We've rarely gotten prepackaged bags of whatever, but I get that, their intention and job isn't really to purchase my art supplies.  But it did stop the push back.  And I've been blunt about finances and or work/scheduling things too.  Yep it'd be nice, but your 6 week camp that runs from 9-12 - nope, can't afford it and not even remotely feasible with my work schedule.  Please do let me know if you come across a camp with full time hours and a lower fee and/or when you start accepting insurance.  I'm sure there are people for whom that doesn't work.  But it has tended to stop more people than my prior approach (maybe because they've just written me off as a parent who just doesn't want the best for my child?).[/quote]

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