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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't live n the burbs, OP, but my DS has got 4 weeks in Leader-In-Training at a local daycamp.  If one of you are heading towards the city for work, look for a day camp enroute  that can use him.  It's good training. [/quote]

I think it's sad that everyone is in such a rush to make kids grow up so fast. "Get them working." "It's good training." I don't know about your kid, but mine is out the door early for school 5 days a week, plays sports after school, is up late doing homework, and spends lots of weekends doing team sports. We are running all school year. Over the summer there is summer reading for the next year. He loves being on teams, but it's alot. I think there is a push to make kids grow up and start working v young. There's no time to relax over the summer and have fun being a kid. The rest of his life is for working. By the time he starts high school he will have a summer job. Isn't middle school a little young to be scheduling his life with one? [/quote]

I guess I'm selfish, but I'm not ready to give up my job so my kid can have a lazy summer.  I don't think camp is that bad.  And we don't live in the country.  Lazy summers at the fishing hole just don't work inside the belt way.[/quote]

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