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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yall are nuts and glad I moved out of this area.  Activities every day of the week is insane.[/quote]

I grew up having activities every day of the week and lived in New England and New York. It's not the area, it's the family lifestyle. [/quote]

It’s weird [/quote]

It was actually totally normal in both areas where I grew up. I also thought everyone went to camp for eight weeks each summer. I was in 9th grade before I made friends with someone who'd just hung out at home all summer. [/quote]

There have always been activities and camps, but I don't believe that kids were always this busy. What's wrong with being home in the summer? I had my neighborhood friends til the begging of high school. No, we weren't swamped with activities, but that didn't mean we sat around doing nothing. Free time I'm some people's minds always equates lazy or trouble and I just don't get that.[/quote]

My 80s summers were pretty un-structured when I was little - lazy mornings at the local pool, picnic lunches with friends at a playground, slip and slides and board games with neighbors. But back then all the moms stayed at home and dads came home right at 5 in time for dinner. My parents got divorced and my mom went back to work and then it was summer camp all summer and after care every day after school. My parents made me do a bunch of community activities (Girl Scouts, softball, soccer, theater) to try to make friends in the new neighborhood we moved to after the divorce

I’m a SAHM now, and my kids do some camps here and there. But most of their friends are in camps most of the time because both parents work so they need childcare. Even with my kids home, it’s not the same laid back vibe as days of yore. [/quote]

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