I'm guessing those people are working parents? I can see how having to find childcare over the summer months when you have to work might be difficult, but I can't help but feel that summer was just as developmentally valuable as school.
It was a chance to go off to camp and learn how to get along with people day *and* night for a week or two. It was a chance for longer family road trips where I could see more of the world. When I was older it was a chance to take looong bike rides and get in shape. And for me, it was a chance to learn things that weren't necessarily being taught to me in school (I learned a great deal of French vocabulary in the summer between kindergarten and grade 1 for example).
Right now I'm a stay-at-home, but I hope to go back to work eventually, and I still want my kids to have the summer off. To request otherwise just so I am not burdened with the cost and inconvenience of childcare is selfish in my opinion.
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Date: 2009-07-25 01:57 pm (UTC)It was a chance to go off to camp and learn how to get along with people day *and* night for a week or two. It was a chance for longer family road trips where I could see more of the world. When I was older it was a chance to take looong bike rides and get in shape. And for me, it was a chance to learn things that weren't necessarily being taught to me in school (I learned a great deal of French vocabulary in the summer between kindergarten and grade 1 for example).
Right now I'm a stay-at-home, but I hope to go back to work eventually, and I still want my kids to have the summer off. To request otherwise just so I am not burdened with the cost and inconvenience of childcare is selfish in my opinion.