Your struggle as a parent and as a doctor is real and valid. Your kids concerns are valid too, but that is their reality of having 2 working parents. One summer of YMCA won’t kill them, but I liked pp suggestion of looking into sleep away camps especially think your oldest would enjoy that more, and supervision is usually much higher standard too vs Y’s or local camps supervision.
Cannot really highly recommend sleep away camps. My oldest went to 2 different speciality sleep away camps and loved it so much! This year, due to our overseas travel and another local weeklong travel, the kids prefer just one week of sleep away camp.
So I think for you; between your own family vacation, beach vacation at their grandparents and sleepaway camp is a nice compromise. You can always hire babysitter home from college breaks for those local camps with weird hours. I do that and will again for my youngest and my oldest is not doing local camp this summer for first time since started going rec camp at 6 years old.
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