A simple Break
The two months vacation not only gives school children a breather, it also provides them the opportunity to explore activities not available in school.
During the school term, children are not free to explore a variety of extracurricular activities that will hone talents and skills not school related.
P.E. or physical education, which has been reduced to once a week, is only one of the things neglected by the school system. The study of visual arts, kinesthetic, and music are usually not sufficient in most schools, which traditionally emphasize math, abstract reasoning, and linguistics. In choosing summer activities for your kids, the bottom line is to improve intelligences the schools don’t put so much weight on.
If your child is artistic, her talent would not be developed in the usual school setup. This, in fact, is the first step in choosing a summer activity for your child: Identify what he is good at or where his interest lies.
September 9, 2009 9:15 am 
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