Our school district provides a summer program as an extension of their after school program. Some of our friends opt out of that program and do summer camps through local churches or daycares.
Camp. This is our first year figuring that out. DD did her school breaks at this camp and loved it. I'm so excited for her to do all the things they have planned.
Our school before and after program has a summer camp. 3 field trips a week, plus other fun activities with their school friends. And it's ridiculously reasonable compared to other camps.
The summers I worked, I hired a nanny & she did the same stuff I did/do as a SAHM...take to pool, outings, camps. A nanny is cheaper than paying full-day camps for 2-4 kids in my area by far. The camps in town my kids go to/have gone to are like 3hr a day & those are expensive enough.
We're doing daycare this summer (he's 4) but he'll be too old for that next year. My plan is to find 2 high school/college kids to split the day as a nanny. We'd be gone from home for 11-11.5 hours, so it's too long of a day for one person, especially a younger one. My sister had that arrangement when she was in high school and it seemed to work out well for everyone.
We can't do camps because nowhere around here has them that go long enough or cover the whole summer.
Camp or summer nanny. Camps around here can get pretty expensive (~90 to 100 a day) so a summer nanny can actually be a reasonable option especially if you have 2 kids.
We're doing 9 weeks of camp + a week with the inlaws (thanks to an extra late labor day/start of school).
Post by vanillacourage on May 22, 2015 13:46:13 GMT -5
Ds2's daycare offers a summer camp for school age kids where every single day they hop on the bus and go on a field trip. Movies, bowling, ice cream, swimming pool every Wednesday, etc. I am so jealous of my kid, lol. Plus it's awesome to have them at the same place for a few months.
daycare this year since DS2 is still in daycare. But, starting next year it will be camps for both of them sine it's generally cheaper than daycare and will be nice to have them both in the same place
Week long day camps. You have to perfectly Tetris them in a calendar. We have to be selective to find ones that go to 5:30-6:00 (have an optional extra cost aftercare option).
One DS is going to for 3 weeks is in a town up the road. I drop him off at a church down the road and they bus the kids to this really bad ass camp and bus them back and they get back at 5:30 every day. It books really early so I had to schedule in Feb. It is completely full all summer.
Post by runblondie26 on May 22, 2015 21:55:24 GMT -5
DD is going to the summer camp our daycare center offers for school aged kids until the end of June. Then she'll be shipped off the grandparents for the month of July (2 weeks with each set). The school year starts again at the beginning of August.