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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do the 'let your kids stay home' people actually have teens? 
I don't fully schedule my child's whole summer but she would be more than content to sit at home literally all day and watch tv and play video games and talk to friends on her phone. Occasionally she'd go with a friend to the pool or the beach. I want her to have a more enriching summer than that.[/quote]

I don't have teens, my experience is based on babysitting kids with older siblings or kids I babysat who grew up into teens.  But with that said, I actually don't care if they spend the entire day playing video games and talking to their friends on the phone.  They're in that middle zone between needing structure and being able to be left alone and getting jobs to fill their time and earn money.  I assume it's only a couple summers that would be like this, so small potatoes in the grand scheme of things.  At that age, I spent the summer in my friends' pools or playing video games, reading or watching TV or going to the movies and then went on to work during the summer starting at 15 in retail.  I don't understand the tv and video games are death mentality.[/quote]

I think people just don't want the entire summer to be like that for their tween/teen. The electronics are much different than when were growing up--YouTube, Netflix, social media,texting. They are much more addictive and potentially harmful than what we were exposed to.[/quote]

Exactly.[/quote]

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