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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any thoughts on how to handle summer camps with reduced hours?  Both parents are Feds making it work during the school year with beforecare and aftercare.[/quote]

Look for extended day camp options/look at high schoolers/college kids coming back home to babysit or to potentially pick up if you're late.

Anyone you know a SAHP?  Can you offer to pay them to watch your kids if some weeks no camp?  If you do this make your kid a lunch and bring snacks.  My mom did this when I was young and it gave the SAHP a little extra $.  My mom also paid for a pool membership for both families so we could go to the town pool during the day (SAHP asked for this).

Take leave.  My SIL works in public schools (not a teacher) doesn't get summers off, so she takes 1 day a week in the summer.  Her husband takes 1 and then she uses both grandparents for the other 3 days.  We don't live close-by, but it is frustrating because the one set of grandparents we share say they can't visit us because they have to "babysit" for poor SIL.  They could afford camps, but refuse.  We also asked if they could watch our kids for one week this summer and they refused because they have to babysit these other grandkids...

Ask other parents if they can pick-up or drop off.  I have a neighbor who has work issues. I get her kid at aftercare and just bring him home until she can come get him.  Her husband doesn't do much and could easily pick-up his kid, but she asked and I could see she was in a bind, so I am happy to do it.   I have an extra booster, but only have 2 extra seats.  I have to go pick up my kid at camp anyway so picking up 1-2 others and bringing them home for a bit isn't a big deal to me.

When my husband was a kid he visited his grandparents for 2 weeks in the summer.  Could any family help at all?  My mom is not even equipped for an overnight, she did it once when my child was in school and other parents called me about her, so never again.  Nothing truly dangerous she was just yelling. [/quote]

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