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Summer schools?
Summer vacations should ideally be the time for children to catch up on some reading, sports or just climbing mango trees, swim or visit new places and relatives or just be themselves without any major parental monitoring. Right? Wrong. Summer holidays have now landed on the laps of mushrooming institutions as a profitable time to target working parents who seek time-management and “skill-building” for their children. For they feel that children are ‘wasting’ their time being by themselves – watching TV or playing in the sun. Parents are working, and have no time to send off their children to neighbourhood swimming pools, buy colouring books or enrol them in regular music classes.
Now there are a variety of options – parents want children to hone their extra curricular skills for future endeavours – s/he could be the all-rounder and the next budding actor, painter, dancer, singer – who knows? Summer camps provide all the activities you can think of – but the question really is are they qualified child experts or just making a quick buck? There is no harm in enrolling your child in a summer camp – but this has to be a well-thought out process – that will involve the child’s interest and aptitude as well. So that it won’t be a tiring, wasted effort of both the child’s time and so-called abilities and the parent’s money.
There are many advantages in summer camps as they will learn new talents like painting. There will be various group interactions. If they are left at home, then the problem will fall on the mother who will have to find ways to keep them occupied.
Usha
Advocate
It depends on the situation – if the family is not going out of station, then it is better to enrol children in summer camps. Otherwise, they will be wasting their time playing and watching TV. At camps, they will learn something new and useful, enhancing their growth.
Bhaskaran
Electronics dealer
It will help them to be more adventurous in exploring activities and build up their confidence levels as they’ll discover talents and skills. Instead of just sitting at home, they will definitely make different friends apart from their school or neighbourhood circle.
Sudarshan
Coffee planter
Summer camps encourage social interactions. It will be a different experience for children, for they have just finished their exams and an academic year. The child needs to registered in organised camps that will also suit the different requirements of the child.
Jacob
Advocate
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