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May 6, 2021

Tips to Prepare Kids for Summer Break

Summer break will arrive before you know it and with that comes the need to find a way to transition your kids from school sessions to summer break. While summer break can be laxer for kids, it’s important that you develop some plan of attack or else you’ll end up with kids who say I’m bored all day long. Having bored kids during summer break, especially when you’re a work from home parent, can be frustrating. Today I’m going to share some tips to prepare kids for summer break so that you won’t lose your sanity and your kids will have some fun.

Tips to Prepare Kids for Summer Break

Keep a Routine

While you may want to push dinner out or have kids stay up a bit later during summer break, it’s important that you plan now for those later nights. Keep a routine during summer break, even if the routine is pushed out slightly. This will help your kids to avoid restless nights and keep them running on some form of routine so that they don’t slack off too much with other duties during summer.

Plan Family Days

If you’re a work from home parent, you may be able to plan ahead with some family days. You could plan one day a week as your family day. This could be a day spent at the beach or an amusement park. What you do on a family day will ultimately depend on what your family enjoys, but planning ahead for a family day will ensure you put quality family time as a priority during summer break.

Develop a Chore List

With kids being out of school during summer break, it’s important that you give them more chores to do. With more freedom comes more responsibilities. Develop a summer break chore list that will provide your kids with some structure and expectations during the day instead of just leaving them to goof off all day long.

Set Rules and Expectations

This is extremely important with preteens and teens. Be sure you set some summer break rules and expectations. If you live in a small community your older kids may want to go spend daytime hours with their friends. It’s important that you set up rules now so that your older kids know that they won’t be able to just do whatever they please, they’ll still have expectations to abide by.

Do Not Over-schedule

Summer break needs to be a time for everyone to relax a little bit. There will be less sporting events and extra-curricular activities to get kids to. It’s important that you maintain some routine as well as rules and expectations all the while refraining from over scheduling. Allow summer break to be a time where relaxation does take priority.

If you use my tips to prepare kids for summer break now, then you’ll be in for a fun-filled, easy-going summer break with kids no matter how young or old they are. Each of these tips will ensure that you make the most of your time together while school is out of session.

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  1. Tammy says

    May 6, 2021 at 8:35 am

    Summer is so much fun for families to enjoy time together. Great post and advice. I do like the part about not overscheduling. Kids do need time to unwind.

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  2. Amber Myers says

    May 6, 2021 at 10:17 am

    There’s no worry about over scheduling here. We all just plan to relax and sleep in.

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  3. Terri A Steffes says

    May 6, 2021 at 4:23 pm

    Great tips, especially about keeping a schedule. I always made my daughter have 30 minutes of reading time, too, to help her from slipping back.

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  4. Tara Pittman says

    May 6, 2021 at 4:53 pm

    I am not ready for summer break. My boys have only been back to school in person for 4 weeks and school ends in 2 weeks.

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  5. Ali Smith says

    May 6, 2021 at 5:43 pm

    I used to hate it when the chore list came out, but it kept us quiet that’s for sure! Great advice.

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  6. Krystin says

    May 6, 2021 at 5:43 pm

    These are great tips! Even though I don’t have kids, I agree with what you said!

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  7. Richelle Escat says

    May 7, 2021 at 12:28 am

    Nice post! and I couldn’t agree more, i love all your tips!!

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  8. Kathy says

    May 7, 2021 at 11:40 am

    I know how bored kids can sometimes get during summer break too. My daughters decided they wanted to go to summer school and take some fun classes. They also have swim lessons, so they’ll stay busy this summer.

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  9. Marysa says

    May 7, 2021 at 9:09 pm

    I have to start planning our summer break. It is nice to have a schedule and things to do. Otherwise it all flies by!

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