keeping the kids busy this summer

Summer is here and the kids are starting to bounce off of the walls. Now that school is on hiatus, it's our job as parental units to keep the rugrats busy, and hopefully keep what knowledge they learned during school sharply honed, to be used when they return to academia.

We've currently got our daughter on a strict regimen of reading, writing, counting, practicing her addition and subtraction by occasionally paying cash for us at the grocery store checkout. My wife and I are fortunate that I work from home and she only has to work part time, so we're around the kids most of the day.

For other working parents, it's easy to let the kids slip through the summer in daycare or at the babysitter's place. Fortunately, there are reasonably priced alternatives out there, and some of them can even help kids to prepare for the coming school year. One such Summer Program that I noticed at PayPerPost is from a learning company called Score. They've been around since 1992 and specialize in making learning fun, so you won't feel too guilty about sending your kids off to learn while their neighborhood counterparts are collecting "doddle bugs" and drinking from the garden hose.