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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never went to camp as a kid and none of my kids have either except for when their sports required it. We go to the pool, the movies, museums,  trampoline park, parks when it’s not too hot,  etc. They also still do their sports in the summer. Most kids in our neighborhood also don’t do camps so they play with them as well. [/quote]

That’s so cool most people work [/quote]

You can hire sitters/nannies. We've done summer nanny shares with neighbor families and it costs less than camp and the kids like it more because it's fewer kids and it's more flexible and they don't have to deal with bored teenage counselors who are sometimes really not great. We use the extra money we would have spent on camps to enroll kids in extra activities -- this is how one kid took up tap dancing and how another got into tennis. We've found it can be especially easy to get into classes in the summer since most people default to full day camps, and that class sizes tend to be smaller and so there is often more individualized attention.

I don't know why camp became the default for summer childcare.[/quote]

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