Favorite summer camps that prepare for college?

blossom
Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:51:12 +0000

If he’s interested in stocks and the financial markets, perhaps help him find a volunteer spot working for a nonprofit in their finance group? Non-profits have to file a 990 form with the IRS- a large nonprofit will have multiple investments in their endowment, and even with a full team of accounting and finance professionals, there’s still a lot of grunt work that goes into it. If he can operate a computer game, he can learn the various software packages that nonprofits use.

In addition to the 990 which is a federal requirement, the organization will have quarterly meetings of their investment committee, monthly meetings of their board of trustees, etc, all of which require MORE reporting and documentation. No, he won’t be making investment decisions. But even doing the grunt work that’s required to accurately and properly prepare the documents can teach a kid a ton. He’ll either find it fascinating (yay!) or decide it’s boring (also good to learn what you don’t like).

Doesn’t sound like summer camp is going to do what you hope it will do. These programs are exceptionally well supervised (liability reasons) even when they are on college campuses.

Is there a reason you don’t allow him to prepare his own breakfast? He can make a frittata or pancakes the night before if you insist on a cooked breakfast, and then he reheats them in the microwave while he’s pouring his OJ. Great way to give him more responsibility, and requires him to anticipate, organize. If your rule is “shopping list is on the refrigerator; I shop once a week on Thursdays”, then he’ll quickly learn that telling you on Friday that you’re out of eggs isn’t going to work….