LONG READS → ON TOPIC Issue 672 · August 9, 2017

Vacation Occupation

For some children, summer isn’t about camp or family vacations. It’s a time for hands-on experience as they work alongside their parents and siblings.

Vacation    Occupation

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SUMMER HOMEWORK To avoid the “I’m bored” refrain parents usually send their kids to camp or plan exciting trips. Some parents however take a different approach and bring their children to work with them — be it at a water park a simchah hall or a hotel

“M ommy I’m bored. There’s nothing to do.” During the long weeks of summer most of us hear statements like this all day every day. To avoid the “I’m bored” refrain parents usually send their kids to camp or plan exciting trips. Some parents however take a different approach and bring their children to work with them — be it at a water park a simchah hall or a hotel. Here’s a peek at several families who spend the summer together working side by side.

Hotel Hospitality

As owner and director of the Tour Plus tour company in Israel Dafna Cohen spends her summer living and working out of hotels abroad. And when her kids were young they would go along for the ride too.

“Contrary to what you might think there’s almost nothing to do in the summer at hotels ” says Dafna. “So before leaving home we’d fill our suitcases with piles of books and games plus summer workbooks from school.”

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