<p>let’s all move to your school district DougBetsy! :)</p>
<p>My D will probably reread and rewatch the Twilight movie/books. Other than that, and summer camps that she will be an assistant counselor at, and a trip backpacking down (and hopefully back up) the Grand Canyon she will have two books to read this summer. One is a choice from a list for all 10-12th graders at the school which they will discuss in Sept, she has picked Rebecca From past experience, there will also be a book for Modern European History, two years ago for D1 it was Candide.</p>
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<p>D2 is going to ABT ballet summer intensive for a month, off to Australia for 2 weeks. Rest of the summer she will do a lot of reading because she loves it, and continue to do SAT I practice tests. I think she is planning on to take two SAT IIs next year. My experience with D1 is not to do all the tests Junior year.</p>
<p>DD’s summer plans are:
-finish up driver’s ed
-work 3 hours a week for our company plus 2 hours a week for the neighbor
-intern at a robotics company for a week
-hopefully intern for a week at Microsoft with a sub-contractor
-her band is playing 2 gigs in the area
-hopefully intern for 3 days as a drum tech/roadie in London during a music festival
-cheerleading camp, cheer practice
-summer reading
WHEW!!
At least it’s all really fun stuff!!
DD is a cheerleader/robotics geek/mathlete with her own rock band. She is definately not one to fit into a mold of any kind :)</p>
<p>My D is planning to do a couple school camps for her sports (3 weeks of cross country and 4 weeks of soccer). We had to cancel our big family vacation this summer, which screwed up her summer plans, but she’ll go on a couple long weekend type camping trips. Now that she doesn’t have the big vacation interruption in the middle of the summer, she’ll probably be looking for a volunteer opportunity or two (some of the places she previously looked at required a certain number of uninterrupted weeks). She also has to do a summer assignment for her AP course. By and large it’ll be a lazy summer.</p>
<p>My DD is not out of school until June 15th. Her plans for the summer include riding her horse 4-5 days a week and working for the trainer at the barn riding other horses or doing whatever needs to be done. She will be doing a couple of big horseshows (hunter/jumper) this summer, one of them we will be gone for a week at and the other one over a long weekend.</p>
<p>She also will be working on an internship for a couple of weeks with an online magazine that a friend of ours runs. This will probably be for 2 -3 weeks.</p>
<p>DD also has a very good pet sitting business in our neighborhood and is always really busy during the summer. </p>
<p>She will have reading to do for AP Euro and will probably have a couple of summer reading books from honors English to finish before the fall.</p>
<p>Given that tennis team practice starts at the beginning of August, “summer break” is really only 8 weeks for D. She’ll have 1 week of family vacation, 4 weeks of camp, and another week of youth group leadership camp. The other two weeks will include summer reading, maybe drivers ed and lots of “hanging with friends” time ;)</p>
<p>Hi fellow parents of 2012 grads.
My class of 2012 guy has three days of finals coming up starting tomorrow. His summer schedule includes a math class, a mission trip (fixing a roof or two, building wheelchair ramps, etc., in Appalachia), some babysitting, sports, a one-week vacation to see the grandmas and cousins, and trying to get driver’s ed done before the fall golf season starts in full force August 3 (with practices for a week and then the start of the season with multiple meets crammed in for two weeks before school starts) and a week of band camp the week before school starts. Oh, and he is going to get a good start on an on-line H.S. health class. I never realized how much he had going on until I started typing this paragraph. And this list doesn’t even include jamming and Xbox 360 hours. Busy but fun I guess we should figure out what his summer reading books are and buy them early… He’ll read them 48 hours before school starts, but good to have them here, anyway…</p>
<p>My D won’t be doing Driver’s Ed for another year, she’s 14, will turn 15 over the summer. Camps, Biology research, some vacation time, summer reading…busy but fun.</p>
<p>Hi everyone - I spend a lot of time reading posts but don’t post very often. I have two sons - graduating in 10 and 12. The 12 son is pretty busy this summer as well:
drivers education (you can drive alone at 14 in our state although he just turned 15)
mission trip to reservation in Montana
two week camp at state university
summer reading / papers for APUSH and Advanced English II
cleaning our house for pay (doesn’t get paid for cleaning his own bedroom / bathroom) - he does a pretty decent job and it beats giving the money to someone else
marching band camp starting the 1st week of August
exercise, exercise, excercise (not an athlete and would be happy to sit on the couch but we have him working with a trainer on weights and I insist on some cardio - riding bike is fine but he has to get moving)
confirmation preparation (reading with a big packet of questions & service hours)
and I’m sure lots of reading, playing video games and spending time with his new girlfriend (so unlike his older brother who has only had one girlfriend for about 3 months during his high school career).</p>
<p>It’s fun to see what everyone else is doing this summer. What happened to the days of going outside at sun-up and coming back in at sun-down?</p>
<p>mom2010grad - you have 2 sons and I have 2D. I am 2009 and 2012, like your older son, my 2009 did not have a boyfriend until senior, but 09 already changed couple. </p>
<p>Would like to know what 2012 parents think about HS boy/girl friend relationship.</p>
<p>schinagus - I’m not a big fan of my '12 son having a “relationship”; however since he can’t drive and she lives a good 40 minutes from us we don’t really need to worry about them spending excess time together. She is over at our house today, but I work from home so I can keep an eye on them (her mom also called to make sure that I would be here.) They are spending a lot of time talking on the phone at night, but I guess that is pretty harmless. We have constant talks about being respectful and following the “grandma rule” (you can do with your girlfriend whatever you would be willing to do with your grandma - holding hands, hugs, maybe a little kiss. Everything else is off limits.). If nothing else there is that little voice in their head telling them “gross” I wouldn’t want to do that with my grandma. </p>
<p>I don’t worry nearly as much about my '10 son ~ he has a different personality (very respectful and doesn’t want to break any rules of the Catholic church).</p>
<p>There seems to be a lot less drama with the boys in the relationships than with the girls.</p>
<p>this is too funny mom2010grad. My '10 D1 has had some shortterm relationships, but it is my '12 D2 who has the relationship which is more serious, it is announced on facebook! he can drive but isn’t allowed to drive other kids nor is my D allowed to go with him. They had a date at the movies where I brought her there and mostly they hang out after school. They have been on a couple sports teams together. I keep an eye on them and it is still at the harmless level. The funny thing is that I used to work with his mom years ago when he was a baby. He is old for his grade and my two girls are both young for their grades (all around the cut-offs) so he is close in age to my D1. </p>
<p>Over in the 10 thread we’d love an update on your older S.</p>
<p>My '12 D2 has been with her bf almost six months, which is unusual for her.(The longest bf she had is 2 months). They go to the same school, have the same English class and same lunch period and hang out after school. He is a fine and smart boy but not liking school. Got “F” 1st semester in Honor English for not doing his homework, looks like the 2nd semester is going to fail, too. His parents are very nice and invite D over for dinner all the time. We did the same, too. I know they like each other very much. Really don’t know what to think about this relationship, both of them are too young, I guess I am worry.</p>
I guess we should figure out what his summer reading books are and buy them early… He’ll read them 48 hours before school starts, but good to have them here, anyway…</p>
he can drive but isn’t allowed to drive other kids nor is my D allowed to go with him. They had a date at the movies where I brought her there and mostly they hang out after school. They have been on a couple sports teams together. I keep an eye on them and it is still at the harmless level. The funny thing is that I used to work with his mom years ago when he was a baby. He is old for his grade and my two girls are both young for their grades (all around the cut-offs) so he is close in age to my D1. </p>