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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have kids who will be 15, 13 & 10 this summer.  I'm also a SAHM.  None of them have ever been interested in sleep away camp.  I've tried ( I loved it) but I'm not going to pay $$$$ if they don't want to be there.  We belong to a pool that has a tennis program that they are all enrolled in.  They will have tennis 4 days a week for about 2 hours. We will stay and swim and hopefully the 15 & 13 year old will work some too (caddy, babysitting, etc.).  Beyond that I don't really care what they do.  This has been a rough year.  I'm completely ok with a lazy play it by ear summer.  [/quote]

OP here. I’m okay with lazy/unplanned, I just don’t want it to turn into screens all day long. Do you have screen limits?[/quote]

Sort of.  None for the 15 & 13 year olds but they are both pretty good at self regulating.  We can monitor their phone/ipad usuage through our phones.  15 year old will check his phone periodically, watches a ton of sport videos but really only plays xbox starting around 9:30-10 at night (non school days) with his friends.  13 year old plays a bit on her phone.  She doesn't have instagram & we just let her get snapchat about a week ago.  Her older brother campaigned for her insisting that this is how kids really make plans these days. She mostly is face timing with her friends discussing Teen Wolf, Vampire Diaries & playing around with makeup.

The 10 year old is obsessed with Roblox and watching you tube videos of other people playing Roblox.  We have screen limits set on his ipad with his downtime being 9pm-7am.  He is allowed one hour every day & depending on his activity level he can request additional time which we will give.  He would be on that ipad all day without the screen time.

I'm not naive that the screen time will probably increase this summer but as long as they are getting some activity each day, I'm ok with it. Really hoping with my husband & I being vaccinated this month & the possibility of the older 2 we can take a couple of trips too.  [/quote]

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