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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Summer school PE in June, day camp junior counselor, 2 weeks sleepaway camp

For those of you whose kids mostly hang out - do they have a parent at home? I know dd would like to do this more (although the day camp thing is 100% her choice - it is her happy place - a camp in the woods with no amenities or bathrooms) but we are at work during the day and she is not in biking distance of friends or town pool. I did tell her she can skip three days of summer school, since they can have 3 absences and still get credit. I just don't want her home alone the whole month sitting in the house.[/quote]

Our kids mostly hang out at home/in the neighborhood.  They do some neighborhood jobs like babysitting, some summers take a class or a sports clinic, and sometimes go away for some type of camp as well as family vacation.  But when they're hanging out at home it works because -- I sometimes can WFH and even when I can't DH and I flex so I leave at like 9AM and he's home by like 3PM so they're not home alone all day every day, there are two of them (ages 14 and 16) so they do stuff together like card games and walking/biking places, they're friends with neighbors who are also sometimes home, we're walking/biking distance to our pool and to the grocery store/restaurants/etc.  The biggest issue is not allowing them to end up on tech all day, which admittedly is a challenge, but having the pool and friends nearby helps.  It also helps to leave them money to go out for lunch or for starbucks or to buy a new book at the bookstore, etc., to motivate them to get out and do things every day.[/quote]

So they watch TV all day.[/quote]
🙄 the PP pretty much described the summer before HS for me and yes I watched a ton of soap operas and went to the pool. I am a fully functional and gainfully employed adult now. [/quote]

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