I'm facing a new situation for the first time as a working mom. My oldest daughter is finishing her first year of "real school" and is no longer enrolled in daycare. Summer vacation looms and while she'll be able to take a break from homework (did you have homework in kindergarten?), my husband will still be working insane hours as he runs his own small company and I'll still be working 30 hours a week at my job.
Camp Grandparent to the rescue! Fortunately for us our parents live close by and we'll be relying on them to help watch our daughter. She'll also attend Vacation Bible School one week in June and take some evening ballet classes. My youngest daughter will stay in daycare over the summer. I work from home on Fridays, so that makes it easier to juggle our schedules, but I know several parents who both work 8 to 5, Monday through Friday, and they are relying heavily on summer day camp, as well as their parents.
Here are some great online resources for work outside the home parents and work-at-home parents looking for ways to keep their kids busy this summer:
- Age appropriate ideas for keeping kids busy for the work-at-home parent from Wendy Piersall at Sparkplugging
- Surviving summer break without sending the kids to daycamp from Shine
- Why do working parents dread the summer from Career Builder
- 13 summer survival strategies for the work-at-home parent
So, working parents, what are your kids doing this summer? Come join me at Blissfully Domestic forums for a discussion on summer break and the working parent!
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I am in the midst of keeping the kiddos in line while I work from home. We are doing a modified homeschooling this summer and camps. I think this should keep them busy for at least a few weeks.