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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some kids need [b]down time and thrive on it and do nothing all summer.[/b] It doesn't work for all kids. Some kids do actually like structure and certain activities (and it does not have to be all summer long, every single day).

But many posting on here feel they must argue that there's something wrong in that, as if any learning activity in summer is somehow wrong and bad and creates automaton kids. As another person posted -- that poster's child [b]chose [/b]the camps and activities he is doing. My kid asks me if she can do a writing workshop each year, and she wanted to do a science camp as well this summer--she is an older kid and knows what she wants, and I don't have to push her one way or the other.

Is there something wrong with the kids [i]themselves[/i], then, when they want that? Not all the parents are shoving this down the kids' throats. Some kids simply like to do these things--a fact that some parents here just refuse to acknowledge; the assumption is that the parents of kids with busy summers must be hard-charging, pushy and academically obsessed. But some kids like to do more in the summer and others don't. Either type of kid can do just fine in school. My kid is not some younger elementary student who does whatever we say; she gets a say and "No" is definitely allowed, but she asks to do things like this.

It's fine either way. It depends on the kid. [/quote]

A very nice post. But I don't see how someone thrives by "doing nothing all summer." And I do understand that cost can be a factor for some families, but the FCPS Parks have inexpensive camps; the Tae Kwon Do summer camps are reasonable; churches have summer camp activities. The only thing you can't do is doing nothing. And I'm not talking about academic type enrichment; my very favorite summer activity for the DCs would be to work on a farm all summer. That's what I was lucky enough to do as a kid. [/quote]

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