I told them they can stay home with me if they want to help clean the house and go grocery shopping but no tv or iPad.

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Anonymous wrote:Do your kids still do camps if you are a stay at home parent?

Yes. How else am I going to get my "me time" to do yoga and coffee with the girls? Isn't that the point of being a SAHM?

I thought it was soap operas and bonbons

My dad was using that line in the 1980s.

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Anonymous wrote:Do your kids still do camps if you are a stay at home parent?

Yes. How else am I going to get my "me time" to do yoga and coffee with the girls? Isn't that the point of being a SAHM?

I thought it was soap operas and bonbons

Yes. My older kids (7 and 9) are doing full day camp and I have a 2 year old at home. It might be different if I didn't have the toddler but they'd probably still do something.

Anonymous wrote:Do your kids still do camps if you are a stay at home parent?

Yes. How else am I going to get my "me time" to do yoga and coffee with the girls? Isn't that the point of being a SAHM?

Yes. One tween does a 7 week sleepaway camp. The younger ones do a mix home weeks, half day camps, sports clinic type camps.

Just a few half day camps: 1 of my kids is doing 3 weeks of 1/2 day camp mostly bc various friends asked her to do camps w them—one is arts/crafts, one gymnastics, one is kind of general ymca type camp, my other kid is not really interested in doing camps and doesn’t want me to sign him up so he’s just doing 1 again bc a friend asked it’s a sports camp 1/2 day.

I feel like a) I don’t know how long I’ll be a SAHM so I’m trying to enjoy having them home, going to the pool, just hanging out at home, laid back kind of summer after a really busy school year and b) camps are expensive.

Yes, a few weeks here and there for things they are interested in. Three kids, sometimes they are all in camps the same week, sometime just one or two, based on which camps run when and what their friends are doing. The weeks with all 3 at home can be fun if we plan outings, but age differences and interests make it harder to find things that all 3 think are fun. I don’t love the heat and can’t spend all day, every day at the pool like I did with my SAHM growing up. No one wants to run errands with me but too young to leave them all home alone. Days of just sitting around the house on screens are no good for anyone. We can afford it, so camp it is!

Yes. But not for the entire summer. We alternate 1 - 2 weeks of camp, then home (or family travel) for a week throughout the summer.

Yep

One or two for particular interests as a treat and a week of sleepaway camp. We mostly just hang out and go to the pool

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Do your kids still do camps if you are a stay at home parent?