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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]

I get what you are saying, but the irony is because their is significant brain drain from the average child, the school will spend 3 weeks of review at the beginning of the school year.  So part of me almost feels like why exert effort to keep my son's knowledge, when it just means he will be bored to death for 3 weeks.  They are going to do the weeks of review regardless of if my son has brain drain or not.

We do keep up learning, we just don't do things like workbooks and such.  We do board games, reading for fun, and just learning about things for fun.  Oh - and I realized that he is finally old enough to start problem solving around the house.  Sure, its how to get the xbox to work when it stops working (because he could care less when the toilet brakes).  But he has to google the problem, trouble shoot and figure it out.  [/quote]

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