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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if people are idealizing the summers of their youth.  The things I remember about my summers were vacations, camps and trips. I remember being bored the rest of the time, although I filled that time with reading so that wasn't a bad thing. But I would have loved to get to do some of the things my kids have gotten to do in camps. [b] I would rather have learned to play soccer or tennis or lacrosse than "kick the can", whatever that is.  [/quote][/b]

Kick the can is freakin awesome...so was 'german spotlight tag', etc.  I don't know about you--but we learned soccer from our youth leagues and the reason we weren't in camps in the summer was because we had 3-4 traveling out of state tournament camps...and then Eastern Regional championships,etc.  We didnt learn soccer there we played year round.

I do agree that there were some boring parts to unstructured summers....but this is where the creativity and imagination come into play.  Kids need boredom.  Kids need downtime.  Kids need time for imagination and not 24/7 of structure and supervision.  We used to play outside all day, ride our bikes to the neighborhood pool, in the evenings we would have massive neighborhood wide games like 'capture the flag', kick the can, red rover, german spotlight tag, etc.  We would make up performances and roller skate in the court,etc.  Lemonade stands, make our own popsicles, etc.  There were days we were bored to tears but ended up laughing with our friends and siblings.  I remember being ready to go back to school when it was all over.

Alas, it is not 1975-1985 anymore.  There are a lot more two working families and camps and childcare are needed more.  My kids will go for 4 weeks of day camps in July.  We are vacationing and having some unstructured time in August.  I do feel a bit sad they won't have the same fun we had--but I am sure they will have fun.  It will just be different.[/quote]

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