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Old 06-16-2007, 08:37 AM
AudreyOka
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Default Summer Schedules

How do you balance having the kids home all summer with working?

When my kids were younger they did a ton of camps, just day camps, but still camp.
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Old 06-16-2007, 04:17 PM
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The day camps seem to do the trick for some time. But with teens it gets difficult, and you wind up having to plan the summer around what the family is doing, since there is just so much going on.

Teens often get jobs in the summer, or use the time to do advanced study or drivers ed. Pulling it all together and coordinating when the family has time to take off can be a challenge.
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Old 06-17-2007, 12:31 PM
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As teens, they help me My older daughter who is now 24 began doing data entry for me at about age 9. She did better than the high school girls I had hired. As a teen she and her friends would come label and stamp my newsletters and I'd buy the group pizza.

My younger daughter who is now 17 has been helping me sort orders since she was young. Today she helps me online with things like MySpace, which I had no clue about at one time .

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