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[quote=Anonymous]I was a teen in the 90s and my summers were always amazing. My younger brother, sister, and I spent 90% of each day at the neighborhood pool. We'd sleep in until around 10, wake and eat breakfast or early lunch, toss some snacks into our pool bag, and head to the pool until around 4 or 5 most days.

We each played a sport but IIRC, our sports practices didn't start until pretty late in the evening, like 6 or 7 pm. They were not like practices today that sometimes start as early as 4 pm!

Other things we did:
-took the local free bus down to the mall and spent the day walking around, goofing off, visiting friends who had jobs, and eating greasy mall food court food. 
-got jobs at 16 but got very few hours; just enough to give us junk food money & make our parents think we were being super productive 
-rode our bikes everywhere! I didn't realize it at the time but we rode 6-10 miles some days to visit friends & cousins

My sister had band camp, but that didn't start until late July and was a daily thing, not a sleepaway type camp. Then marching band practice would start in August in the early mornings and late evenings to beat the heat. I have so many fond memories of playing glow-in-the-dark ball with the rest of the neighborhood kids while listening to the distant marching band practice music late into the evenings. We had to be home by dark but were allowed to hang out in our neighborhood as late as we wanted in the summer.

I've tried to adapt similar low-stress, less scheduled summers for my kids. I think it makes them happier overall and makes them produce better academically. [/quote]

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