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What summer activities do you plan for your kids?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on May 24, 2010
“They’re going to be visiting grandpa in Minnesota.”
“Band camp at KU.”
“I have two kids, and I would like for both to find some job and have some fun, and I will send them for a couple of weeks to Europe.”
“Well, we’re planning on going to the Deanna Rose Farmstead and quite possibly the Kansas City Public Zoo.”
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Comments
misterlee 2 years, 12 months ago
My kids are old enough that they're responsible for their own schedules. I just hope that visiting their dad is high on those schedules.
charliejohnson 2 years, 12 months ago
Yeah, your kid is gonna do that!
gphawk89 2 years, 12 months ago
I bet there are quite a few folks that think Autie's remarks were meant to be humorous, but those activities really are "the usual stuff" for a lot of the kids in rural KS. Helping with farm work - either as hired help or as part of a farming family - kept many of my classmates occupied full time during the summer months. That, plus vacation bible school and going swimming on the really hot days.
xbusguy 2 years, 12 months ago
Everything they need is in the paper...... you know..... job, car, apartment
snap_pop_no_crackle 2 years, 12 months ago
The little nippers need to learn how to reload a musket while running full speed through the woods.
RoeDapple 2 years, 12 months ago
And how to operate the Dillon 550 so I can get some shooting time in too!
RoeDapple 2 years, 12 months ago
They can cast those Keith bullets! I've been breathing those lead fumes for years and it hasn't affected me! Has it? . . . Well . . . ?
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grammaddy 2 years, 12 months ago
The usual, swimming, library programs,etc. Anything that will keep them out of the house and out of my hair.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 12 months ago
The Prairie Acre, thats where I recognize Mr. Musser from, or maybe somewhere else...
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looza 2 years, 12 months ago
cleaning and dissenfecting his frat house at the Univ. of Pittsburgh.
RoeDapple 2 years, 12 months ago
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CWGOKU 2 years, 12 months ago
Camp "Mow the Lawn."
ms_canada 2 years, 12 months ago
They mostly do their own thing, but on June 24 I am taking my girls to Banff to The Club at Banff Art Center to see and hear that great GREAT african guitar player, Alpha Yaya Diallo. Don't know his music??? you are missing one super great guitarist. He has a website. I can hardly wait for June 24.
Jaylee 2 years, 12 months ago
I wanna go to Banff!
Dejacrew423 2 years, 12 months ago
We have a zoo pass for the KC Zoo, vacation Bible school, swim lessons and T-ball. The rest will be filled with picnics, swimming, the park, and loving on their new baby brother. I love summer!! I've missed my oldest and she only goes to preschool for half the day!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 12 months ago
Plan for my kids? What do you think I am, some little pancake eating communist? Hell No. They can make up their own minds, they don't need any government telling them what to do.
1029 2 years, 12 months ago
My kids' favorite summertime place to play is at Bowersock Dam. They have so much fun playing in the water and hanging out in their "fort" under the waterfall that I can usually slip over to Johnny's for a beer or two and they don't even notice that I'm gone. Summertime fun ain't just for the kids, you know :)
SpeedRacer 2 years, 12 months ago
Band, baseball, mowing 4 yards, swimming, a little fishing and camping, maybe a road trip, and READING.
sustainabilitysister 2 years, 12 months ago
Don't forget Wet Willies
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 2 years, 12 months ago
Megafauna farts could have stopped the ice age 12,000 years ago
75x55 2 years, 12 months ago
Times must be bad - it's very clear that some of you need a paying job.
RoeDapple 2 years, 12 months ago
Paying jobs? Did that from age 13 on . . . 49 years of paying jobs. Time now to coast a while, be an obnoxious old fart and eventually fade away . . .
How am I doin' so far?
merrill 2 years, 12 months ago
There are plenty of activities on the table ...... as always.
The Lawrence Art Center is a big player and mowing too. Late summer it will be the Rocky mountains after loads of people have returned from vacation for school.
M. Lindeman 2 years, 12 months ago
When it is nice outside, they are going outside and figure it out there self. If it is raining or nastey out there, I will let them play there video games.
H_Lecter 2 years, 12 months ago
I have a wonderful game for kids that keeps them furiously occupied for hours. The only equipment required is a length of rope. Kids love rope tricks.
I like to call it, "See if you can get out of this one?"
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