PH Parents of Teens

susan

Any parents of teenagers out there in the PH/DH community? If so, what do your kids do in the summer?

My son, now 16, lives with me in the summer and since we're not tuned into the school scene here, we are always struggling with summer things to do. In the past we've found good day camps or full-time volunteer opportunities. This summer he's taking an SAT prep course which won't fill his days. Are there part-time volunteer opportunities he might be able to get in on? Safe spots to hang out?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

captain m

The park, zoo, and botanical gardens all have volunteer opportunities, check their respective sites.

http://www.wcs.org/getinvolved/volunteers/prospectpark

http://www.bbg.org/abo/volunteer/index.html


Good luck.

carnivore

It won't help this summer, but when he gets a little older, we're always looking for research assistants in the Emergency Departments at Kings County and Downstate (just a few stops away on the 2 train).

isa

He can volunteer at Celebrate Brooklyn as well. There are some very cool kids that work there.

susan

Great ideas, thank you everyone who answered! We'll check into these. I'm sure he'd love to do any of them.

dailyheights

Does he know HTML?

anonymous

Unfortunately he does not know HTML. Apparently it's just not cool, because it's what Mom does for a living. Who knew building websites would become the new accounting.

He is, however, learning Flash.

susan

Anonymous wrote: Unfortunately he does not know HTML. Apparently it's just not cool, because it's what Mom does for a living. Who knew building websites would become the new accounting.

He is, however, learning Flash.

That was me. Okay, okay, I'll download Firefox.

rhodamine

Subject: Re: PH Parents of Teens

susan wrote: Safe spots to hang out?

ut oh. do you think our neighborhood is devoid of any "safe" spots to hang out in?? :shock:

marsstars

Subject: Film class for teens at the Y

Also - I work out at the Y in Park Slope (9th street and 6th Ave.) and saw a poster up for a summer film class for teens that looks pretty cool, you may want to check that out.

susan

Subject: Re: PH Parents of Teens

rhodamine wrote: [quote=susan]Safe spots to hang out?

ut oh. do you think our neighborhood is devoid of any "safe" spots to hang out in?? :shock:

Well, I'm not going to send him to Half or Soda to hang out, being as he's 16. And by "safe" I mean, places for kids to hang out where their parents can be relatively sure they will be ok on their own. I consider myself a cool mom and all, but he is my baby and I would like to protect him forever.

rachelfran

i started a yahoo group for parentsofnyteens - open to all areas here in new york

join by sending an email to [email protected]

elitt

Subject: Re: PH Parents of Teens

susan wrote: Any parents of teenagers out there in the PH/DH community? If so, what do your kids do in the summer?

My son, now 16, lives with me in the summer and since we're not tuned into the school scene here, we are always struggling with summer things to do. In the past we've found good day camps or full-time volunteer opportunities. This summer he's taking an SAT prep course which won't fill his days. Are there part-time volunteer opportunities he might be able to get in on? Safe spots to hang out?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

According to restless native in the 'stoned on st. marks' thread, he could stand in the street all summer throwing rocks at your neighbors and it would be perfectly acceptable.

"This stuff isn't a symptom of weak laws, it's simply what happens when people don't stand up for themselves. You can't rely on the government to protect you from schoolyard bullshit like this, what are we in the 3rd grade?? I'm not paying taxes to have cops escort you to buy sushi, nor to throw some kid in jail for DOING WHAT LOTS OF KIDS DO TO OTHER KIDS."

daver

Good grief. Do you think that you could please try to constrain the nonsense to ONE thread? No need to spread it out...