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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have overbooked your kids and it is wrong. Grandpa and access is irrelevant, but she is right in that kids should not have that many activities. Boredom is the king of best inventions and stimulates great minds. Let them be bored, stop micromanaging and being insane. Plus you will save money and they might sleep more and end up taller. You sound not like a helicopter mom, but a drone mom![/quote]
? These are activities that they asked to do. My daughter is in a dance clinic with friends, and my son does basketball with some of his friends. Camp is mandatory, because I need a break too. I'm not going to tell my kids they don't need to socialize and do activities because grandma doesn't approve. [/quote]

So which is it, they asked you to do the camp or it is mandatory, because you need a break? So you are a SAHM? There is a big difference of mandatory and choosing what to do. If your question was," do you kids want to do basketball camp or science camp,  and you have to do the camp..." they chose the lesser evil, what if you asked them, "Do you want to stay at home and sleep in during the summer or go to camp?" would they still have chosen camp? And then you or another pp writes, "they like camp, good, because they are going!" Both of these do not sound like kids had any choice at all. How many weeks are they not in the camp during the summer? And yes, half day of camp and music lessons in the evening is a lot, having them do a sheet of math and reading is more productive, that is what countries with kids surpassing our kids by far do. Our kids are already overscheduled during the school year, and if you are SAHM, because if you are at work why would you write about needing a break from kids, then you do have time to yourself while they are in school. The only reason you are posting here is that you feel guilty, not towards your mom, but towards your kids. Working people get vacation, your kids don/t even get that.[/quote]

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