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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like a lot of these responses are from stay-at-home moms?

I'm wondering what the working parents do because I'm in the same situation as OP. [/quote]

I'm a working parent my son is 12:

He is doing day camp all summer except:

3 weeks of sleepover camp, 1 week vacation, and 1 week of nothing.  During that week of nothing I told him he could stay home by himself as a trial for two days if he walked the dog and went to the pool.  (Our pool does not have a rule of how old your child has to be to be alone, that I know of.  I started letting him go alone last year).  The other 3 days I plan to take off of work.)

Next year we are talking about 6 weeks sleep over camp (he loves it), or some combination swim team/volunteering.  He does not want to be in day camps.  I do not want him sitting home all day.

Before someone lectures me about:

1: sending my child away all summer-I did it and I loved it and I don't care what you think.
2: Having my child in camps all summer, I work and this is what it is like when both parents work.[/quote]

Working parent here, with a 7th grader and young elementary kid. Both kids are in camps, with the exception of weeks when we'll be away on vacation and a week or two at the end where I can "work from home" and let them chill at the pool or in front of the Xbox. This is reasonably normal among the 13yo's friends - many are at sleep away camps, or Boy Scouts, etc. The only friend of his who gets to stay home alone is crazy lonely.

I hope this will change a bit next year, but I don't envision a time where I'd just leave my kid the keys and let him stay home alone all day for weeks on end. There are a few families in our neighborhood who let their tween or young teen spend all day at the pool. Nice kids for the most part, but I always order extra pizza because they are usually hungry.[/quote]

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