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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read.tons.of.books.

I would  read 2-3  books a week as a kid in summer. [/quote]

So did I. I also went to the beach, played in the forest with friends, went to overnight summer camp for 2 weeks, rode bikes around the neighborhood, played kick the can, played baseball and a whole lot more.

The difference between now and when I was a kid is that I could go out and play with other kids. There were activities that I could do with other kids. A summer without that interaction strikes me as very, very sad. My DS is 7 and doing a good job with this mess but he misses his friends. He knows why he cannot see them but he still says he misses playdates and Den meetings and baseball. I can deal with a summer without the pool, I didn't have a pool to go to as a kid. But a summer without being able to hang out with friends is going to be very sad.

And just because I was a reader doesn't mean other kids are readers. There are some kids who don't enjoy reading as much. The idea of reading 2-3 or more books is boring as all hell and gone.

I am hoping that we can hang out with other families this summer. I am less worried about camp and the pool but I do hope that there is time for playing with friends.[/quote]

You know, I'm kind of tired of hearing how "sad" and "boring" this is.

Yes, our normal lives have been turned upside down. As parents, this is the time to teach kids resiliency. Life is not the same right now. No pools, no den meetings, no baseball. Okay, fine. So what can we do to make it better? What can he learn/do that's different?

How can he make lemonade out of the lemon that summer of 2020 promises to be?

Look. folks - this is crappy. We all know it. And it's no where near as crappy as: having no food, having no shelter, having no money, having a fatal disease, not being able to see, hear, speak or walk, being in a war torn country and having your friends carted off, or any of the billion combinations of any of those.

Not having a pool, baseball, den meetings, or the like doesn't even begin to touch the real issues people in this world have to deal with. This is an opportunity to teach your kids that you aren't going to coddle them through this. Put on your big girl panties, assure them that we will all be okay, raise your expectations of them a notch, and maybe we'll raise a generation that isn't lazy, spoiled, and entitled. [/quote]

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