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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The average child can lose up to 2.5 months of learning over the summer.  Completely ignoring your children's education over the summer is detrimental to their learning.  Why would you willingly do this?

Of course there are ways to make it fun and the term "studying" might not be appropriate.  But there should definitely be some review and some advancing going on during the summer.  Whether you do specific workbooks, hire a tutor, or rely on their summer camp programs- you should absolutely be ensuring the summer brain drain does not occur in your child.

Additionally, each child learns in different ways.  You know your child best.  If a tutor is best for them- fantastic.  If summer reading programs are perfect- go for it. Regardless of the method, just make sure you are doing something to prevent the brain drain.[/quote]

OP here. I am getting my child to do a handful of Kumon and similar workbooks for about 10 minutes per day. 10 min of work can become 30 with the bathroom, drink and snacks because he is starving excuses. He used to enjoy working on his journal but that has been difficult to get him to do.

I am going to charge the ipads to start using MYON. [/quote]

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