I often hear from parents that summer has changed and they just don’t understand the difference. Well, it has, and in interesting ways. The bigger question is how to adapt so that our kids have great summer memories even if they are not the memories that we would have shared.
With that thought in mind, what were your favorite summer memories? Baseball, picnics, playing in the neighborhood with friends, laying on the lawn suntanning? The problems starts with the loss of tight-knit neighborhoods where everyone knew everyone and the kids played together, went to school together and grew up with all of the parents involoved in all of the kids. As a member of the 50 and up age group, summers have changed dramatically. No longer do kids play in the neighborhood, moms are working so no one is usually there to supervise and as a parent, you can only let so many hours of television and sleep go on without some kind of mental stimulation.
If you are lucky and have a sports driven kid or a reader it is easy to organize summer but what happens when you have a very bright, high-ability student who wants challenges but no stress? Or what happens if you have a very bright kid who has an area of weakness you want to strengthen but you’d rather not have them think they had to “work” all summer? That is why Todd academy, Inc. designed our series of fun summer camps that let all the kids play games they love, create with art, photography and ceramics, or write and draw or a myriad of other things while strengthening the skills they use the rest of the academic year. Check us out at: www.toddacademy.com and take a look at our great summer camps.
With summer camp titles like: Robotics, D&D – Beginner to Advanced, Web Design, Creative Writing, Anime, Digital Photography, and Ceramics, who couldn’t have fun? The twist for parents is the hidden learning. Each camp is taught with learning goals entwined in the fun. Maybe summer can be fun again, it just has a new twist.
