Did you give your kids a good enough summer"
As the kids head back to school soon, I’ve been reflecting on the summer and it had me thinking: How do we measure a summer" How do we decide if we gave our kids a good one this year" And is it just me, or has society has set a very high, unrealistic standard of what a “good” summer is for us as parents" Especially since, as the meme says, we only get 18 of them with our kids. (Groan.)
I say it’s time to banish the expectations and bust the myths about what a “good” summer should entail.
Myth #1:  A good summer requires tons of day trips. One year my daughter decided she was going to keep all her day-trip wristbands on until she went back to school to show her friends. Turns out she only ended up with two?which is plenty, in my estimation. Day trips can be fun, but there’s no need to take the kids to every single day trip spot within a 200 kilometre radius. Myth #2: A good summer costs lots of money. Back to day trips: The last one I priced out was going to cost our family of four at least $150. If that’s NBD for you, awesome, but for me, these types of outings are a once or twice a summer kind of thing. Otherwise we’d have to start looking into which of our kids we’d rather send to college.
Myth #3: You only had a good summer if you posted idyllic vacation pictures on social media. Make sure everyone is smiling, of course, and that it’s framed perfectly and finished off with a gorgeous filt...
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