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IloveSiamese;1664278 said:What about during the summer time????
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Well- my kids do a lot of "stuff" during the day in the summer. My oldest has to take at least 4 violin lessons over the summer, which means she also has to keep up with her practice schedule (20-30 mins a day, 5x a week).
They've also had "fun" summer school a couple of times. They go to summer school for about 3 hours in the morning, but it's fun stuff. Youngest dd had a fun one last year where they learned about vaudville, oldest got a 2 week course in Latin.
They'll go to sleep-away church camp for a week. They might even go to grandma's for a week (if we have time to schedule it- we're actually thinking about Disney in August before I go back to fall semester). And then there's a week of VBS where we have to be out of the house by 8:30 am, so they can't stay up all night.
When they're home during the day, sometimes they have friends over. Sometimes they just hang out and read. I also require them to do a library reading program where they read for about 30 minutes a day. Oldest dd has to read and take a couple of AR tests at school. Or I take them to the pool to swim. We push bedtime to 10-10:30, and some nights we watch movies, some nights we do board games.