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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a couple of friends who have beach houses or farm houses. I gotta say, it's great in many, many ways BUT they definitely are not as involved in sports and general school and neighborhood stuff as other families. Their kids ride or sail instead of soccer and Saturday baseball games and birthday parties. I imagine when their kids get out of elementary school they will need to cut back significantly on their weekends away just because there are so many activities that they need to be close to home for. On the plus side, they have this lovely home and property that they get to enjoy.[/quote]

OP here.  I understand what you are saying about these families not being as involved in things closer to home.  But is that necessarily a bad thing?  Every family values things differently, right?

I remember growing up I had a friend who spent summers in her family's beach house on Cape Cod.  She never participated in any summer-related things closer to home, like the community center day camp I went to, and didn't seem to mind "missing out" on these things, because she had a much more interesting time at the beach house.

Also, these activities that they "need to be close to home for" as you say are all optional--birthday parties, swim team, etc.  We don't have a neighborhood or community pool here, so there won't be a neighborhood swim team for our kids to join, so they won't be missing out on that since there isn't one to join anyway.

[b]I never did team sports, Girl Scouts, organized weekend activities of any sort or any kind of community-related or neighborhood-related activities and I turned out fine.  [/b]My mother would never have wanted to drive me around to these kinds of things on the weekend, that would have been too much of a bother.  I never really spent much time with friends on the weekends until high school either.  Not saying this is an ideal way to do things, but the idea of all these sports and activities filling up every weekend seems a bit exhausting to me.[/quote]

You keep talking about YOUR childhood, OP.  Which sounds perfectly lovely. But don't you care at all about what your kids want?[/quote]

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