Here's Liz Atwood's latest Tween Tuesday: 

For many kids, this is the last week of school. I don't know about you, but I'm glad. While I worry that my tweens are going to be bored this summer (they have just a couple camps lined up, and the rest of the summer will be spent with grandma) I'm very happy that starting next week I won't have to pack lunches, check homework, or plead with my kids to get out of bed.

I know summer brings its own challenges -- new schedules and new routines. I'm afraid that in a couple weeks, the kids will complain they're bored. And a bored tween is not a good thing. I still have a three-foot hole in the back yard that's now filled with water because my boys were bored one Saturday and decided they were going to dig a tunnel to the neighbors.

But for now, I'm not going to worry about it. I'm just going to enjoy the idea that I get a bit of a break as well.

How about you? Are you looking forward to summer vacation? Any good ideas for how to keep the kids from getting bored if they aren't in camp?

Photo: Kids play in Monhegan Island, Maine. (AP)