A whole week with nothing to do?
Maybe we could just let them be kids for a week – no schedules, no demands, no anxiety.
Let them figure out what to do for themselves. There are toys, and books, and other kids to play with. I grew up when and where only rich kids went to camp. The rest of us played games, read books, planted tings in the yard (you can plant in containers in the city, too), made stuff out of plasticine. You know, developed our imaginations, learned to structure our own time. OK, so we bugged our parents a little bit once in a while, but we figured out for ourselves how to keep busy and interested.
Bad enough we keep them in school for such ridiculous hours during the school year, then send them off to some regimented camp.
Can’t we just let them be kids once in a while?