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[quote=Anonymous]I have to search for two camps for two different gender kids who are in different grades and have different interests.   I also have to figure out pickups and dropoffs that fits in with our work schedules.   Camp signups happens as an iterative process but we have aced it by now.

1) I am friends with the parents of several of my kids friends.  We share what camps we are planning for so that some of the other friends can also signup for it.  It makes car-pooling easy. We are guilty of camp-hoarding too, so my kids friends can join in too.

2) I overbook all camps. I will sign up for every thing from one camp/location, before proceeding to another vendor/activities.  This way, I have full coverage.  I start withdrawing from camps only if I get something better for the kids.

3) Other parents and I will be the first people to sign-up our kids for the camps, as soon as registration opens. If it opens at 1 am, we are up and quickly register for it.  We have a system for which camps to sign up for.

3) DH and I usually sit together to sign-up and maintain a google calendar for the signups that we share with the kids.

4) Vacation happens at the beginning or at the end of the break. A couple of leisure weeks happens when one of the parent can be off and we basically do nothing but veg out,  have playdates, go out to eat, shop for BTS, schedule home/yard improvements and my cleaners come to do a weeklong deep cleaning.

This is a system that has worked very well for several years. My kids like to go to camps that their friends are also going to. So, I do the work to get all the parents organized and the camps then becomes a fun playdate kind of activity.

I have also arranged for EC coaching and classes from private instructors at home for my DD's team.  It has been extremely helpful to build a winning team and resulted in good friendships between parents.  Kids look forward to these classes because we build in playtime before classes as well as snacks.  Parents get a break too and can run errands because kids are having fun with their friends and learning or doing something constructive.  Usually, this is a  year-round thing.  My kids are very social so anything that they want to do (or need to do), we have to make sure that several of the friends are doing it with them.

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