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| Mon, 03-26-2012 - 12:17am |
For the working moms who don't work from home (and especially if your spouse or SO also works), how do you handle summer break from school? Do they go to daycare or a playgroup? We are still contemplating having our first child and issues like these always make me wonder how in the world we would figure it out, considering our family lives 6 hours away. A kindergartener, first grader, second grader, etc, can't stay home alone all day while my DH and I are at the office when school isn't in session....
Thanks for any stories or insight you could share.
Thanks for any stories or insight you could share.
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For the older one, we lived close to family, and up until she went to school, she either stayed home summers with my mother, or would attend part time daycare when my mom did work. Once she got into school, we moved farther away from my parents and we would divide her time up during the summer to most of it at an in-home daycare that a friend's mom ran, a week at overnight summer camp, and a few weeks with my parents at their house or on vacation.
Currently, both my little ones go to daycare full time while DH and I work, and they will continue to do that in the summer it is a pre-K based program for the older one, but its all year round. When she enters Kindergarten next fall, she will most likely spend days off of school at the daycare's drop in program and then resume the daycare's summer program for older kids which includes more field trips and hands on learning based on what they did during the school year. Though we may look at a few day camps for her at the YMCA. This year also they will go and spend a week with my parents in Michigan (we are in Texas) while I do a vacation with my older daughter before she gets ready to enter her senior year of high school. My DH owns his own business and summers are his busiest time, so we don't see him much at all during the summer.
we use a summer day camp plus we have grandparents that help out. No camp will cover 100% of summer break. I have a 3rd grader and a 3 year old. My 3 year old is in a full time year round day care but she generally takes 2 weeks off in the summer so our vacation is planned around that. She also takes 2 weeks in December 1 of which coincides with school break. On top of xmas vacation my school age kiddo gets a week in february and a week in april. We are lucky my dad retired a few years back and he will take my oldest and my sisters oldest. My mom works 3 days a week and my sister 2 so we use grandparents and aunt for mid year breaks and the time inbetween school and camp. Depending on where you live if 2 working parent family are the norm or single parents as well you will find many day camp options. Now the one DS goes too I went too as a kid. My mom didnt work and its probably 50/50 half the kids go because parent(s) need to work the rest are there to give mom a break. Our local Y and boys and girls club also run summer camps and they run vacation camps too during weeks schools are off.
It's actually easier before they are school age because daycares, whether it's a center or home daycare, will be open all year around.