I swear, when I was a kid school was a September-May affair. June, July, and August were summer break, and any days infringing on those months felt like an absolute gyp. Now I see that my friends with kids are buying school supplies in July and some of the kids are going back to school next week. What happened to summer?
Once school starts things can get busy, busy, busy. I figure that the time to think about school supplies is also the time to get the memories down. There are a thousand ways to do this, but if you have kids not only is this the only summer your kids will be that age, it’s the only summer where they will have the perspective they have now. Here are some ideas to help you capture both the events and the age:
- If you have a video camera you can have your kids tell about their summer. They can simply talk about the summer, they can dress up and act it out, or they could even present it as though they were newscasters.
- If you keep a journal you can interview your children and record what they thought about the summer, what they enjoyed, what they didn’t like
- If you keep a blog you can have your kids help you write a post or have them guest-write a post for you
- You can have the kids create a newspaper with photos and stories about the summer
- Scrapbook with the kids (more on this tomorrow)
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