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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you or your DH is a SAH parent, do your DCs go to camp in the summer? How much do you spend?  I'm curious because I will be home most of the time during the summer so DCs could stay home. In fact, I'm having a hard time justifying spending the $$$ for summer camp.  BUT I'm also afraid DC will get incredibly bored being home all summer long.  Thoughts?[/quote]

I SAH and I think you will find there will be an initial boredom adjustment. Kids who are used to being scheduled and structured all day every day usually don't have the skills to really be able to have fun on their own. So be prepared to teach some of that - how to be creative, how to have fun in an unstructured environments, how to create your own fun etc... I don't know how old your kids are (Mine are 8-12). My kids are usually bored for the first couple weeks when school ends as they transition out of that structured, scheduled environment. Then they get into the swing of building tree forts, and hanging out with friends and biking up and down the road, and swimming in the neighbors pool, and creating their own plays and by mid July their days are very 'busy' - all at their own doing.  They dash in and out of the house and I barely see them, except for food!

We do a week at a lake in a family beach house, a long weekend of camping, and kids spend a couple 3-4 day stretches with grandparents and cousins. Last year my DD asked to go to camp for a week because she was horse crazy at the time so she did a day horseriding camp. My son did a sports camp for a week a couple years ago for a sport he was very into at the time. So we do camps more at the request of the kids if there is something they really want to do. [/quote]

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