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Since some of us may be dealing with this situation soon, this recent story caught our eye and thought it would be of interest.

The Chronicle reports:

With the summer on the way, it isn’t hard to know what many parents feel as the school year comes to an end.

Panic.

“Every year it comes to the end of the school year and parents start scrambling,'’ says Monica Kortz, recreation director for the city of El Cerrito. “They start coming in our office when we open at 8 in the morning, and it just continues until we close at 5.'’

That’s nothing new, of course. Parents have been wondering what their kids are going to do for the summer since the days when school recessed so children could help with the harvest.

But this is different.

Last week Michelle Fadelli sent me an e-mail explaining the problem. She has a 3-year-old and an 11-year-old and works part time. When she and her husband calculated the cost of summer camps or day care, they came to an odd realization.

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