Together with a few friends, choose an age-appropriate book for your kids to read and discuss. Set the date of the meeting on your calendar, figure out how many pages to read each day to complete the book on time, and plan some related games, activities and food for the big meeting. If you keep this up over the course of the school year, you'll get a kick out of seeing the kids take over the planning and running of the meetings as time goes by.
Heading to the zoo? Make it a big deal. Plan the field trip a few days in advance. Figure out when you'll arrive, when you'll eat and when you'll leave. Go online and plan out the route you'll follow once you get there. Pick a few questions to research and answer while you're there. You can still have a lot of fun -- but your kids will also learn a little more than they might have otherwise.
The less-hectic days of summer provide the perfect opportunity to spend some one-on-one time with your kids. Let them take the lead and guide the activities at least once a week. As for you -- you just go along for the ride.
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