by Laura Falin posted in Parenting

I know schedules vary around the country, but my kids have been on summer break for three weeks now.
It did not, however, take them three weeks to manage to get bored. Want to know how long before I heard the dreaded Mantra of Summer" Want to guess when the first kid groaned from the other room, "Mom...I'm boooooored!"" Anyone"
Ninety minutes. An hour and a half. It was literally the same day that school got out. We won't even talk about how many times I've heard it since then.
I used to feel guilty. I'd get on Pinterest or I'd see the pictures my friends were posting on Facebook. I'd find tips for setting up your own Camp Mom for the summer, with activities for each day. I'd see Summer Bucket Lists and 101 Things Every Kid Should Do This Summer. And "letting them get bored" was never on there. These lists and activities were full of things to do that required time and prep work and usually money. I'd feel very bad that apparently every other mom in America was waking up each summer morning with a plan for the day, and a workstation already set up for each child, and sandwiches that looked like tiny penguins all ready for lunchtime. I forgot that these are everyone's highlights.
We don't put pictures on Pinterest of the 67th peanut butter and jelly sandwich we slap together.
We don't post on Facebook about how we lay around all morning doing nothing.
We don't Instagram our kids' faces when they look b...