Uh-Oh, Here Comes Summer (with guests Ashley and Keri from the Momtourage Podcast)
b'Here comes the summer of nothing! For older kids, camps and sports leagues and internships and jobs are canceled. For little kids, even "Camp Grandma" isn\'t a sure thing this year.\\nWe usually look forward to summer as a lazy-living, sleep in and lie around break from our usual hectic lives. But our kids have already *had* three months of lying around doing nothing, and the thought of three more months of cranky pajama time is not reassuring.\\nHow are we going to make July different from March this year?\\nOur guests this week are Ashley Hearon-Smith and Keri Setaro from the Momtourage podcast. \\nWe talk with Ashley and Keri about the "special hard" of each age group when you\'re looking at a summer calendar with basically nothing on it.\\nNo matter how old your kids are, we think the answer is pretty much the same: give your kids the gift of free play, also known as the Land On The Other Side of Boredom.\\nHere are links to writing on this topic that we discuss in this episode:\\nMelissa Bernstein for Thrive Global: How Screen Time is Edging Out Play Time \\u2013 and Why It Matters\\nEsther Entin for The Atlantic: All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed\\nPeter Gray: Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life\\xa0\\nMichael E. Ruane for Washington Post: The coronavirus wrecked spring. Will it claim summer, too?\\nSydney Trent for Washington Post: Summer jobs for teens are scarce, but a little boredom has its benefits\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'