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Ideas for Planning a Teen SummerExplore Local Opportunities, Mentorships and New InterestsPlanning for a productive tween summer challenges middle school parents. Here are some top tips and ideas for how to plan for an engaging summer.
Middle school moms everywhere are faced with the challenge of finding engaging activities for their unengaged tweens (preteens). Summer camps were fun last year, but tweens are “too old” for those kid camps this summer. Here are a few ideas for keeping your tween off the couch and out of your hair for a few months. Identify interests. Schedule a trip to the local book store in the coming weeks.
Connect interests with action. Put your bookstore dollars to use by having your tween send an email, write a letter or call someone from the magazine. Most articles include contact information for either the writer or the person featured in the article. These initial inquiries can lead to incredible opportunities. One tween’s passion for running and initial letter resulted in an invitation from a featured runner to attend an upcoming event. She registered for the junior division and met the professional runner afterwards for lunch. From that moment on her summer was a race to learn as much as she could about running before the upcoming fall track season. Take a day trip.
Explore local opportunities. This idea requires some lead work on your part before your tween gets involved.
Read more about engaging teens during the summer here.
The copyright of the article Ideas for Planning a Teen Summer in Middle School Life is owned by Joe Bruzzese. Permission to republish Ideas for Planning a Teen Summer in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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