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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please help.  Getting the kids to do anything - sign up for camp, classes, activities, or even go out for the day is nearly impossible.  We can't afford to have them sign up, then not attend. Their friends aren't around, for the most part. Ages are preteens.  Any constructive suggestions?  Anyone in the same boat?  I know a lot of parents just sign their kids up for things, but without DH on board, it is nearly impossible. I feel overwhelmed.    [/quote]

Oh - and if they don't [b]want to go to camp, every square inch of your house should be white glove clean and your yard should be beautiful courtesy of their labor. [/quote][/b]

This.  If they don't want to do anything, leave them a list of things that MUST get done during the day while you're at work.  If not, sorry, they're going to camp/getting a job/volunteering.  They don't get to sit on their asses all day.

My kids are younger but I don't ask them what they want to do, I just sign them up.  Of course, I pick things that I think they will like and remember places they enjoyed in previous summers.  Camps they don't like as much, I don't sign them up again.  And I agree with pps, you need to have this planned out in February.  My kids were fully signed up for summer camp by the end of January.

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