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[quote=Anonymous]We’ve had these types of summers when my kids were that age. With my oldest, it was forced because it was summer 2020. Luckily, we lived in a neighborhood with lots of kids and they were fine running around outside with them. I bought a huge blowup pool and we had slip and slide and the water hose. No camps were available so all kids were home.

The next few summers, we’d do a mix of half day or full day camps and weeks without any plans. I thought it worked pretty well, but as they’ve gotten older, they’ve gravitated more towards their devices and less playing outside. I found that was easier to monitor at 10. It’s also harder to find neighbors to play with because they’re in camps.

One thing I did find helpful was to do activities at the library. 10 is still an age where mine liked some of the planned things like learning to sew, Lego day, game day, read to dogs etc. We’d go a bit early so they could find books and then they’d do whatever the organized activity was. I’d work from the library and it got me a couple hours of work time. We’d usually have lunch and then they’d read their new books all afternoon.  [/quote]

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