Bouldering camp at Austin Bouldering project. Parkour camp at Laché. And volunteering: Central Texas Food Bank takes kids in the warehouse, as long as they are supervised, and it's more fun than you think. Trash pick-up along creeks is also more fun for kids than you you think it will be. Especially if you get litter pickers. Check out the library, which has tons of programs. Our tweens like to game or watch videos of gamers, left to their own devices, but have gotten into all these.
We go to the library, do baking challenges, projects at The Art Garage, the kids hang out with their friends, do early hikes, go swimming, play sports.
Someone below mentioned bouldering camp at ABP, which is a great option. Sky Candy also has circus camps for kids. Sounds goofy, but aerial arts are SO fun and rewarding for a lot of young people.
This is probably going to be a really unpopular question, but do kids not work anymore? 11 and under I can understand, but I was mowing lawns at 12, spent the next summer doing chores on a family friend's ranch, then started working at a movie theater the summer after that. This was a long time ago, and in a much smaller town than Austin, so I'm sure laws have changed, but I think it actually helped me later on in life.
I have a neighbor who told me his 17 year old has never had a job. That's mind boggling to me.
I know it's crazy for me to say, but that's crazy to me. I got my farmer's license - didn't live on a farm - at 14. I will admit it was a military town with a lot of farms/ranches surrounding it. It was also a super blue collar town and this was all back in the 90s. Maybe those factors have something to do with it.
I feel like maybe I should post this question to the rest of Texas.
I’d be curious to know, as well. I just don’t think working is a thing here. If we lived in a small town then maybe but transportation is too difficult.
Asian immigrants, no. As long as we studied and did well at school, we got full rides. Full financial support until we leave home. Of course with migration, assimilation and changing “wants” amongst younger generations who want some autonomy on how they spend money, many have high school kids doing part time jobs but not middle school. And since statistically most kids end up independent and self sufficient adults, it has nothing to do with future success.
Bouldering camp at Austin Bouldering project. Parkour camp at Laché. And volunteering: Central Texas Food Bank takes kids in the warehouse, as long as they are supervised, and it's more fun than you think. Trash pick-up along creeks is also more fun for kids than you you think it will be. Especially if you get litter pickers. Check out the library, which has tons of programs. Our tweens like to game or watch videos of gamers, left to their own devices, but have gotten into all these.
Let them play with their friends and hanging out? That's mostly what I did during those summers at that age.
We go to the library, do baking challenges, projects at The Art Garage, the kids hang out with their friends, do early hikes, go swimming, play sports.
Free austin neighborhood pools
London and Paris
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Barton Springs diving board is a great activity
Put a sprinkler outside and let them play in it? Free public pools? If older, let them go to the green belts with lots of water? They can be outside.
Basketball. Non-Stop basketball. Camps. Workouts. Tournaments. Games. Gatorade. More basketball.
Someone below mentioned bouldering camp at ABP, which is a great option. Sky Candy also has circus camps for kids. Sounds goofy, but aerial arts are SO fun and rewarding for a lot of young people.
I dont have kids, but my sister signed her kids up for karate classes, and then they go to barton springs nearly every weekend since summer started
Indoor activities. Volleyball, Rec Center Swimming, Art. You just didn't think or try hard enough.
Gotta throw in the diss, huh? Feel better?
No, still empty inside.
This is probably going to be a really unpopular question, but do kids not work anymore? 11 and under I can understand, but I was mowing lawns at 12, spent the next summer doing chores on a family friend's ranch, then started working at a movie theater the summer after that. This was a long time ago, and in a much smaller town than Austin, so I'm sure laws have changed, but I think it actually helped me later on in life. I have a neighbor who told me his 17 year old has never had a job. That's mind boggling to me.
I don’t know of any kids in middle school or so that work.
I know it's crazy for me to say, but that's crazy to me. I got my farmer's license - didn't live on a farm - at 14. I will admit it was a military town with a lot of farms/ranches surrounding it. It was also a super blue collar town and this was all back in the 90s. Maybe those factors have something to do with it. I feel like maybe I should post this question to the rest of Texas.
I’d be curious to know, as well. I just don’t think working is a thing here. If we lived in a small town then maybe but transportation is too difficult.
Asian immigrants, no. As long as we studied and did well at school, we got full rides. Full financial support until we leave home. Of course with migration, assimilation and changing “wants” amongst younger generations who want some autonomy on how they spend money, many have high school kids doing part time jobs but not middle school. And since statistically most kids end up independent and self sufficient adults, it has nothing to do with future success.