I love the month of June.
There is no other time in the year that feels like summer than the month of June.
The kids are finally out of school. Some of you have your vacations coming up. It's not too hot and you have the July 4 holiday to prepare for.
Then, it ends on July 5, ironically only two weeks into the "official" start of the summer season. You walk into a Walmart or Target on July 5 and they're taking down all the July 4 stuff and putting up the back to school stuff.
Didn't school just end like a few weeks ago?
Yes, and rather than just enjoy every day of the summer, people cringe like they do on a Sunday afternoon knowing there's just a few more hours, before they have to go to bed and get up and begin another work week.
School starts back in the first of August in this part of Oklahoma. Other states, it's the end of July.
Really?
We're mad because our kids get a few weeks off during the summer, so now, we have to ruin their summer because we have to put on a suit and tie or pantsuit and go to work in 100 degree temperatures.
Even worse, you have these egotistical parents who are afraid their child might forget to add 1+1 over the summer and they're forcing their kids now to do school work at home, during the summer. I used to have teachers threaten to give students homework over the summer. But now, parents are doing it. Worse, these are the same parents who 25-30 years ago were in classrooms where those teachers made those empty threats.
Only, they're not empty threats now.
All we hear on the news is how the kids are out of shape and they spend too much time inside. Well, if you make your child spend hours inside working on math and reading, then, they're going to get out of shape.
Parents don't let their kids play anymore unless under adult supervisions. Parks are empty because kids can't cross the street to go to them without their parents being arrested for letting their kids go to a public park.
Maybe parents are afraid to even let their kids outside, even in the front or backyard because some nosey neighbor may call police and say the kids are outside.
With the Internet and social media, there's more perverts out there trolling after your kids by every pic you post than there are perverts riding around in old-model cars. Judging from the recent arrests of teachers molesting students, they're probably safer NOT being in school.
So, what's the solution?
Simple, give the kids some time to have fun and not dictate what fun can happen. Give a kid a stick and let them dig a hole for an hour. Or five minutes.
Playdates have micromanage childhood the same way little league baseball has destroyed the sandlot teams.
People get so nostalgic for the good old days in which their parents allowed them to ride bikes without helmets and hang out in treehouses, but yet they act like someone else changed all that. No, they did it themselves.
They're the parents now. They're the adults getting cautious when they see a kid playing by himself in the park. 
It's time for parents to grow up and let their kids be kids.