[quote=Anonymous][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]

I’d like to know this too! My kids are both elementary but too old for the daycare camps that they have at places like Kindercare. The regular camps like the county, Girl Scout, ballet camps all run at most 9-4.

What do people do for middle schoolers? I never went to day camps after elementary school and just associate them with little kids.

Our current plan is to send our kids off for the summer. 4 weeks one set of grandparents and 4 weeks the other side. Kind of sad about that but we aren’t sure either of us will have jobs and can’t spend 10k if there’s a good chance we will be home. We need to save money for being laid off. [/quote]

Man I wish we could do this but my FIL is too old and my parents don't have the bandwidth. They keep really busy and don't have the attention span to hang with the kids for more than 2 hours at a time. My mom actually sent us links to 9-3 PM day camps near them this summer, saying my spouse could drive the kids hundreds of miles to go to camps with limited hours there, while I stayed here to work in person. I had to tell her that doesn't help, there are day camps with limited hours here too....[/quote]

But couldn’t your mom drop off and pick up the kids at the limited hours camps near her?

[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]

I’d like to know this too! My kids are both elementary but too old for the daycare camps that they have at places like Kindercare. The regular camps like the county, Girl Scout, ballet camps all run at most 9-4.

What do people do for middle schoolers? I never went to day camps after elementary school and just associate them with little kids.

Our current plan is to send our kids off for the summer. 4 weeks one set of grandparents and 4 weeks the other side. Kind of sad about that but we aren’t sure either of us will have jobs and can’t spend 10k if there’s a good chance we will be home. We need to save money for being laid off. [/quote]

Man I wish we could do this but my FIL is too old and my parents don't have the bandwidth. They keep really busy and don't have the attention span to hang with the kids for more than 2 hours at a time. My mom actually sent us links to 9-3 PM day camps near them this summer, saying my spouse could drive the kids hundreds of miles to go to camps with limited hours there, while I stayed here to work in person. I had to tell her that doesn't help, there are day camps with limited hours here too....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Govt people are the worst. Don’t take that the wrong way.

thread not about govt people. OP is not a fed.

Private companies are also rto.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I’d like to know this too! My kids are both elementary but too old for the daycare camps that they have at places like Kindercare. The regular camps like the county, Girl Scout, ballet camps all run at most 9-4.

What do people do for middle schoolers? I never went to day camps after elementary school and just associate them with little kids.

Our current plan is to send our kids off for the summer. 4 weeks one set of grandparents and 4 weeks the other side. Kind of sad about that but we aren’t sure either of us will have jobs and can’t spend 10k if there’s a good chance we will be home. We need to save money for being laid off.

This is something I am worried about too. We pay upfront for all camps (which I think is normal) and it’s thousands and thousands of dollars. If I don’t have a job in July I am really going to miss that money, but we don’t have an alternative. Trying to save leave to take a couple weeks off and took my payout as time off this year, but honestly I could have used the money too.

Anonymous wrote: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.

I’d like to know this too! My kids are both elementary but too old for the daycare camps that they have at places like Kindercare. The regular camps like the county, Girl Scout, ballet camps all run at most 9-4.

What do people do for middle schoolers? I never went to day camps after elementary school and just associate them with little kids.

Our current plan is to send our kids off for the summer. 4 weeks one set of grandparents and 4 weeks the other side. Kind of sad about that but we aren’t sure either of us will have jobs and can’t spend 10k if there’s a good chance we will be home. We need to save money for being laid off.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I will be leaving very early (shifted hours) and taking some leave. I had booked most of my camps before the RTO decision. We will figure it out but it’s only possible because my actual boss is great and my spouse (who is private sector and earns 3x what I do) still has a lot of flexibility both in hours and WAH.

Just to be 100 percent clear- I have always had child care for the hours I work. I just now also need additional child care for commuting time and given I have no idea where I’m going to be parking, it’s unclear how long that commute will be.

I'm expecting to be gone 5 AM to 6 PM, it's all on my spouse this summer. We're doing fewer camps than usual so we can have more in home babysitting instead (to reduce dropoff/pickup burden on spouse) and I expect to take a lot more leave.

Leave, babysitters, half hoping to get RIFed (one of two permanent feds on a team of terms and contractors, it's going to be awful).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I will be leaving very early (shifted hours) and taking some leave. I had booked most of my camps before the RTO decision. We will figure it out but it’s only possible because my actual boss is great and my spouse (who is private sector and earns 3x what I do) still has a lot of flexibility both in hours and WAH.

Just to be 100 percent clear- I have always had child care for the hours I work. I just now also need additional child care for commuting time and given I have no idea where I’m going to be parking, it’s unclear how long that commute will be.

Anonymous wrote: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.

I will be leaving very early (shifted hours) and taking some leave. I had booked most of my camps before the RTO decision. We will figure it out but it’s only possible because my actual boss is great and my spouse (who is private sector and earns 3x what I do) still has a lot of flexibility both in hours and WAH.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Camps will have to adjust. One parent will go to or quit. Or babysitting all day

It sucks. I usually have camps paid and scheduled in January but unsure if my spouse or I will have a job. I also can't offer rides with other families because we have a sedan and kids under eight need a booster. It won't fit with my infant seat and my son's booster.

Anonymous wrote: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.

I just take extra hours of leave.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Only apply to camps with extended day options and shift schedules so you can do pick up and drop off. No different than the school year with before and after care.

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.

Anonymous wrote:+1

Women should not work outside the home.

And if they do, they should only see their children on weekends and maybe two hours on weekdays.

+1

Women should not work outside the home.