2 weeks of camp. Possibly 3 for whatever is interesting to them.

Depends on the child. One needs a lot of downtime in the summer, the other needs to stay busy or she gets bored quickly.

Anonymous wrote:Whatever fits your families needs. Some kids love camp and would go every week, some kids hate camp and don’t want to go at all. Some families with multiple kids might want camps to let the kids get time away from each other. Some families with an only child might want camps so the kid can socialize. Some families love hanging at the pool every day.

You know your family, what does it need and what can it afford? Do that.

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Mine preferred camp until neighborhood friends were more of a draw and then we would leave some weeks open for that. Since I didnt need child care I let them have the final say. They even loved sleepaway camps but one had some allergy issues with that so I did have to curtail her choices in that regard.

Teacher here. I only signed up for one week while I did a weeklong PD. What I got paid for the PD almost covered the cost of the camp.

Eight weeks.

3 weeks of full-day camp coordinated with friends (my child likes camp and likes seeing her friends there).

1 week of half-day art camp, again by her request.

We also have weeks with nothing scheduled and weeks of swim lessons or tennis clinics- those things are short, maybe an hour. This seems to be a good mix of planned and unplanned summer activities for us.

Depends how annoying your kids are. We usually did 3-4 weeks of specialty interest camps (often not full day) and 1-2 weeks of vacation with the rest of the summer off. But my kids were not annoying. I can think of some other kids I would send to camp all summer for sure.

Whatever fits your families needs. Some kids love camp and would go every week, some kids hate camp and don’t want to go at all. Some families with multiple kids might want camps to let the kids get time away from each other. Some families with an only child might want camps so the kid can socialize. Some families love hanging at the pool every day.

You know your family, what does it need and what can it afford? Do that.

My kids do swim team but they go to a private school and the pool is aligned with public. So we have a week of no daytime swim team or pool access right after our school ends but public is still going. So for that week, my kids will go to a camp. They’ll do another camp later in the summer for basketball. So two weeks of camp, plus swim team, plus vacation.

So far my three boys have been fine going to the same camps (different programs). I don’t know how long that will last!

I think I counted that summer is 9 weeks this year. In a perfect world, we'd do 2 weeks vacation, 3 weeks at home, 4 weeks at camp.

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Anonymous wrote:Two weeks.

This.

Which two weeks?

Depends on our travel plans, dates that camp is offered, if any friends joining. Usually June / early July.

I am in a little different of a position bc I do need childcare but have grandparent care as option. I have found 3-4 weeks of camp to be the sweet spot to balance free time vs boredom.

4 weeks
One sport/athletic
One outdoors
One science/engineering
One art/theatre

I like to do 2- one of tennis and golf at the club and 1 of whatever activity they’re into or that a friend asks them to. The rest of the summer is 2 weeks at the beach, then pool time and mini adventures that I want to do.

Mine don’t love camp. If they did, then maybe more.