Create a plan to survive and thrive the summer – and reframe past summers for both HSPs and HSCs.

Free time or downtime one minute, and double the work for parents the next. Summer camps, jobs, friends, travel, family, community service, summer classes–how to keep our sensitive children and youth in balance with just the right amount of busy and just the right amount of chill.

What are your favorite strategies for negotiating summer parenting? Best camps? How to help HSCs survive swim classes which are imperative (both Elaine and Alane have childhood trauma stories about swimming lessons)? How much camp, sports, playdates, travel, screentime, sleep, supervision is just right?

Bring a story of a fabulous summer memory from your childhood.

Take some time, maybe right now as you are reading this…what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you read “fabulous summer memory”?

Now really think back to the details. Where are you and with whom? What are you doing–something big or small? Are you happy? Do you feel like your best self?

We’ll use our exploration of these memories to “design the right life” for the kids and reframe our own childhood summers.