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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]After a few years of fighting the tide and trying to have "old fashioned" summers that are spontaneous, I gave up. My kids were -always- alone.
 
The school year is just as (pointlessly) structured around here. The striving parents won't admit it this way, but much of the enrichment scheduling is aimed at resume building. ie, unathletic indifferent kids playing 3 sports and playing two instruments.
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[quote]This is just the sad reality of the DC area and keeping up with the Jonses. Being forced into all summer-long camps. I think it has to do with parent laziness too. Easier to send them to camp all day and let someone else deal with them. Everyone just follows suit. I wish my neighborhood had moms and kids home all summer, making their own memories.[/quote]

[quote[b]]It is a bit sad that some parents can't fathom just hanging out or having mini adventures with their own kids during the Summer.[/quote]
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No, 1343PP, no hate toward families whose kids do afterschool activities or camps here. None at all. My point is simply that there are lot of kids in camps and activities who want to be there - as well as a lot of us for whom this is an essential part of the work-life balance. Btw, PP, you may figure that out once you actually become a parent.

As for the OP and the others who think that activities and camps are all signs of the apocalypse, let me just assure you that despite the fact my kids participate in activities and go to camps, they have neighborhood friends and a reasonably good sense of community. So camps are not really your problem.

The OP and the angry SAHMs are totally free to vent all they like, but I'm also free to offer some advice: if you don't like something, work to change it. And if the efforts you made a decade ago didn't succeed, try again. Blaming those "strivers" and "driven feminist women" - actual quotes from posts in this thread, which just boggles my mind - for what you perceive as a problem in your neighborhood is ugly and petty and incredibly backward. And it doesn't do a damn thing to make your neighborhood feel like less of a "GHOST TOWN."[/quote]
 If you are going to quote me at least read my whole post. Again, I am NOT referring to parents who work out of the home full-time. 
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