Oh, I don't want to over schedule him,Just to be clear, I know this. I just didn't want you going down the whole "I'm a bad mom" route, because YOU ARE SO NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
but I don't want to make my mom responsible for him all summer. She is the only adult who will be home, that is when she is not in the hospital. With her health, I don't want to depend on her 100%.That's different. Also, CJ is around my Ben's age, right (ten)? I think he's probably going to have his last magical summer this year, just because of the energy-to-burn issues that Sparky mentioned.
Last summer, he wasn't big on going outside for whatever reason, and he's the kind of kid I try not to push to do anything (that ought to be fun) because it immediately sounds not fun to him, unless he thinks it up on his own. But then he was turning into a little stress puppy--upset about everything, all the time, so I finally told him I thought that was because he needed to go out more often, stay out longer, and move his body, more. By a certain point in the summer, I had him take the younger kids for walks around the block, a couple of times a day.
When he moves around, he doesn't get stressed out. When he stays in too much, we ALL get stressed out.