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Welcome to Second Listen Saturday on the
Parenting Roundabout podcast, where we share some

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fun moments from a past episode for
your weekend listening pleasure. Look for new

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episodes every Monday through Friday. Today
we're talking about how businesses can help us

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make it through the summer. We
noticed again a story about AMC Movie Theater

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chain's summer movie Camp that offers cheap
rates on kids movies and snacks. And

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these showings take place in the middle
of the day, so if you're looking

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for something to do for your kid, you could take them to the movies

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and not you know, have to
skip a payment on the car to do

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so. I actually, many years
ago, some friends and I did a

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camp mom where we just got together
every day with our kids and we planned

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specific activities to do. And one
of the things we did every week was

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go to the AMC Summer Movie Camp. And a lot of you know,

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a lot of like or nice camps
will take a whole load of kids there,

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which is probably I think what it's
mainly for, but it was really

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nice. You could get cheap admission, cheap snacks, it keeps the kids

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occupied for a couple of hours.
It's cool it's very nice. So and

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you know you'll point one mom to
go out and get the snacks. Who's

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willing to miss like the first half
hour of the movie because you're behind the

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camp people getting thirty popcorns at a
time. But you know, that's cool,

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we'll do that. I think there's
not a mom who wouldn't mind missing

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half an hour of a kids movie. So we got to think in what

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other businesses do we wish would offer
this same sort of please bring your children

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here thing for the summer. You
know, if fast food places wanted to

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knock down their prices to real cheap
and not give stink eye to kids who

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are just hanging out for a long
period of time, that would be okay.

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Bowling alleys, I think, I
think the bowling alleys where I live

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do do that they have free bowling
for kids in the summer. Do they

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have it for just general kids or
is it just organized because I think what

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happens we don't bowling alleys and Catholic
schools have been closing down at a record

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rate in Northeast New Jersey, and
so there's not that many anymore. And

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I think, like the same thing, these organized camps will come through and

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take up all the lanes. So
you want to go bowl in the middle

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of the day with your kid,
it's sometimes very restricted in availability, but

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it would be nice if they would
offer that to just general populace. You

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have that there where you are.
Possibly bowling is healthier in Wisconsin than it

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is here. I can only think
of one two bowling alleys, three bowling

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alleys that are in our general area. And they do offer some kind of

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free summer stuff I'm not too clear
on, you know, what all the

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caveats are, Like the bowling is
for you, but you have to pay

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for the shoes or whatever it is
the shoes, right, and if there's

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certain days or times that it's like
I'm assuming it's only during the day.

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Yeah, but but I know that
they definitely have summer specials, right,

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so that's always, you know,
good for a couple outings. Yeah,

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my kids like bowling. That would
have been a good thing to do and

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so far. And our movie theaters
too, like they have the kids,

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you know, special kids movies and
deals, but then they also have like

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every Tuesday I think is cheap days. Yeah, where it's where it's the

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regular movies, not the special kids
movies. Right, that's nice. What

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would really be awesome is if they
provided childcare. Drop your kid off in

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this movie to watch something by Disney, and then we have this other theater

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with that movie you've been meaning to
see but you couldn't get a babysitter.

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All moms could go in there and
then you meet up after. Let's get

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that going. What would they call
that? Mom movie time, AMC Summer

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movie camp and rest it services,
and the ushers would becoming sick moms.

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Moms, the movies are over,
Please come get your kids and moms.

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These chairs are so comfortable. It's
nice and cool and dark in here.

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Can I just take a nap?
Sleep those those reclining chairs, man,

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Yes, take a good nap in
one of those, and like the you

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know sometimes we bring blankets too because
it's cold in there, and wow,

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you could get a good rest.
Yeah. They to turn on all the

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lights and blare music to clear the
moms down there, get out, get

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out, or just like release the
children into the parents auditorium. That would

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end. Yeah, I mean for
me, of course, ice rinks would

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be a you know, cost effective
thing, right, because my kids do

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skate all summer and but they don't
go to public skate and there's a public

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skate kind of year round, and
like go with the terriffraff. They just

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yeah, like the camps. There's
definitely days went in a whole a whole

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camp full of kids comes. But
but yeah, they they would, they

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would take advantage if there's sheep ice. Yeah, at the at the mall,

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like your kids off at the mall, be awesome. They could like

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like, you know, fence off
one portion of the mall. Yeah,

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our mall does have one of those
little kids play areas and it is kind

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of fenced off, but you you
are expected to stay there and watch,

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pay attention to your child. What
if or what if a salon just sort

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of you know, shut down for
a day and offered, you know,

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four hour sessions of personal grooming for
teen girls. That is an awesome idea.

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What if they just like, you
know, it's personal grooming camp for

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teen girls and or teen boys,
because obviously absolutely, and they they even

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partnered with a nail salon. Yeah, and they had like this, yeah,

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this session where you could just you
know, go in and do your

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hair and your nails and try different
hairstyles and yeah, that kind of cool

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that would be. That's a great
idea. Yeah, I'm thinking, huh.

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This was because I just had a
conversation with a friend who was telling

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me about her daughter, who is
obviously a teenager, and it's summer vacation,

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and he's lamenting because all she seems
to do all day is personal groom

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She spends her day personally groomming.
I think he'll come home and she'll say,

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what did you do today? I
watched my daughter do her personal groomming.

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Well, and I'm excited because my
son is going to sleep away camp

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and she said, I need to
bring a nail clipper with me. What

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step? I said, Well,
why don't we just clip your nails before

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you go? And then you don't
have to know they inspect us every day

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and they check our nails, like
dirt under our nails a camp away taking

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off? So I wows really really
short so that I don't get dirt under

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What kind of camp is this?
It's just like you know, you're your

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every day like swimming in the lake, get in trouble if you didn't have

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dirt into your nails, because that
meant you were just sitting somewhere reading a

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book and not getting into it.
Right. At that camp, they inspect

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their cabins every day. They have
to clean them. Remember this is the

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one we're on the packing list.
It's like you have to bring rags and

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oh my, do you remember we
talked about that. How can you get

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them to bring that routine home?
Right? Wow? You need refresh your

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camp every so often. Camp,
Right, I have to start having a

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competition between my two kids or who
has the cleanest room, because that's what

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they do at the camp they give
They pit the cabins against each Oh my

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gosh, wow, I was curious
to know the story behind this camp.

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This doesn't sound like a typical camp
experience. Yeah, it is, though

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it's very some traditional, very finicky
person is in charge there. We're not

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going to have any this MESSI on
my watch, Holly and the kids do

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it. God bless them. That's
wonderful. Do yeah? Oh learning good

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habits theoretically speaking of teens, Yeah, yes, I have one another idea.

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Okay, what if you had a
Instagram camp where you took the kids

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around the city to various locations,
yeah, and took photos of them for

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Instagram. Wow, and whoever gets
the most likes against dessert, and you

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could pit them against each other.
Yes, which cabin has the most likes?

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You got those kids online buying likes
right and left. Like you know,

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just one of those buses, those
little air conditioned shuttle buses, and

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you just go from hop around from
place to place in town, and the

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kids would just pile out, take
photos of one another, and then you

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get back in the bus, give
them some you know, food and water,

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and keep going. Yeah, that's
that would be a popular option.

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I think, yes, it,
Yeah, that I'm excited about. For

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my son's campus. They're not allowed
to bring cell phones. Oh scream free

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week without having to. But won't
you be like, you know, wanting

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news. We're like the other end
of that. It's like ID because you're

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healthy. But then I can't like
follow by GPS. They're a removement.

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They put the camp post pictures on
Facebook. Can you like having microchipped or

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something so you can still trace his
whereabouts? Yeah? I still want to

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know, and I would be a
withdrawal and such a scenario. You can't

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text me every hour, I know, right, you can't night. I

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traced my daughter on a trip once
by her her debit card. Receipts,

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so they're a ways. But I
guess that wouldn't work for camp. I

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know, you just have to assume
that they're on that island in the middle

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of that lake. Wow, sounds
like the beginning of a horror movie.

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To matter, No children, leave
your cell phones home, Everything would be

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fine. Yeah yeah, well a
lot now that we're coming up with concepts

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for horror movies instead of camps.
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