A recent poll by the Levada Center, 42% of Russian students will spend their holidays at home. To the country will go 18% guys, and a trip to the country with his parents -12%. The main cause of "house arrest" parents called financial crisis: the money for the rest simply do not. But not only in this case. Experts are convinced: the officials are literally shaking the children during the school year, but completely forget about them after graduation.
And well even if the child can send the "grandfather of the village." Otherwise, the student is left to itself. Can not say that kids immediately will throw fire and steal cars in the stores: department of public order the Interior Ministry said reducing juvenile crime by 21% compared to last year. But already with a teenager on the street and at home can happen a lot of trouble. Where to send my child, that it does not make mischief, and why you should not let the issue rest of its course, figured out "NO».
Even last year, many children went with their parents or peers to the warm seas in this country and abroad . However, this season, it seems, this idea will be abandoned. "The prices for tickets to children's camps of the Crimea and the Caucasus this year seriously increased. This happened largely due to rail tickets - their price has risen twice - told "NO" expert with the Russian Union of Travel Industry (PCT) on children's leisure marina Sonin. - Reserved seat ticket from Moscow to the Crimea and back - a little less than a thousand rubles to the Caucasus - 5,2 thousand. To rest on no fact untwisted resort, will put about 18 thousand ».
The big problem now - rest in such" monsters "of the past as" Eaglet "and" Artek ". Change in Orlyonok will cost from 40 to 70 thousand rubles, but the quality of accommodation, according to experts travel industry "pulls" on 20 thousand at most. On the beaches of Anapa smaller group of swimmers, and the groups themselves are not so much. In any case, the queue for bathing children are not worth it. "At our base in Anapa, where the rest orphanages and boarding schools, shortage of about half the seats in the first stream - admitted" NOR "tourism manager firm" Vacation "Ivanchenko Irina. - Money for the rest of the children of these institutions were either low or sponsor, and above all just stopped delivery groups, paid for by philanthropists, while the budget payment is also reduced ».

Beware camp rose

9% of Russians are going to send their children to "learn life" in one of the children's recreational facilities close to home, according to sociologists from the Levada Center . Camp outside the city has two advantages over overseas resort. Prices for tours are much lower (from 15 thousand rubles without roads), to the same parental concerns can always come to a favorite son or daughter. However, the proximity of camps to house does not mean that the children there will be more to follow. "The year before my daughter went to an expensive camp - voucher worth 30,000 rubles - shared with" NO "Muscovite Irina Volkova. - Her husband once came to six in the morning - fruit to give my daughter wanted. Not only is a gate at the border area was wide open, so he went without any problems in the housing to girls. He was not called to any counselors or guards. The same night we took my daughter there ».
However, despite all the flaws and even serious violations in the camps, the Russians still trying to send a child to rest it there. The real cost of one shift in the camps near St. Petersburg more than prices, officially declared on the websites, but children's health agency is still filled. The authorities keep silent about the fact that the destruction of the base camps for children continues, with a rapid pace. According to the St. Petersburg Branch of the Rospotrebnadzor in 2009 in the competition for the provision of social services, attended by 27 children's camps and summer is less than in 2008. After a major overhaul to open only one country children's camp - Serov. Does not remain social institutions that provide recreation for children with parents.
This is not the only loss in the field of recreation students. Federal Service argues that this summer, 17 children health camps did not begin work on the first shift because that just does not get enough children. This is despite the fact that every Russian citizen officially employed Social Security Fund (SSF) to compensate for 50% of tour price. "Caring for the rest of the children of workers - direct obligation of socially responsible employers. Vouchers, which pay for the SSF, organizations must deal with the commission on social insurance, or authorized, if your organization operates up to 100 people - said "NO" deputy head of the social programs FSS Leonid Vakhnin. - But some employers consider obtaining appropriations in the FSS "tedious" occupation - need to collect some documents and they often do not know how to properly take care of everything ».

Back to School

The budget option for children's activities without the involvement of relatives - so-called urban camps. They are organized at schools, libraries and clinics. According to the principle of work - the same kindergarten, only for older children. School children are provided with meals, quiet time, walking, sightseeing and - depending on the specialization of the camp - language lessons, teaching computer literacy or therapeutic measures. After such a program in five or six hours a child taken away parents. Capital officials say that demand for such camps grows each summer: this year by popular demand working moms and dads these institutions will work in July and August. "In Moscow, the city functioning 790 camps in which 31,000 children have a rest, - said" NO "press secretary of the capital department of education, Alexander Gavrilov. - Is it worth the cheap: parents pay 10% of the tour, the rest of the city compensates ».
However, this option is not suitable for high school students. They want more freedom, and tinker with malyshney laziness. In addition, no fresh air or clean the river close by in these camps, as a rule, no. But all have it in abundance is a city in the country. However, not all of it is. However, resourceful citizens and are not confused and have impromptu kindergartens "a purse". The guys from several acquaintances of families move to someone's great country house, and parents, depending on the vacation schedule "work" teachers. Or simply "thrown off" by a nanny, which monitors the noisy kids on weekdays. It costs from 10 to 30 thousand rubles a month plus food.

Guys not to our yard

Unfortunately , not all families have the opportunity to attach their child under the wing leader, nyanyam or grandparents. In general, nothing terrible in this: the previous generation quietly spent the summer in the city with friends and well in this case rested. But the trouble is, say parents, today's children are almost forgotten how to play each other! "We Egorka go for a walk every day around the yard - told" NO "mother of eight boys Rada Makarycheva. - I noticed that when guys have cell phone or game console, they will not pay attention to each other. I tell them how we played in childhood. Play with them half an hour, remove the - and they are back in "Tetris" glued ».
According to psychologists, the trend observed in the last seven - ten years. "So has the territorial structure in the mind of the kid: the concept of" court "is now in many blurry - explained," NOR "neuropsychologist Center of Education in Development Tatyana Mukha. - Due to this, almost stopped the transfer of games from generation to generation, when the older teach the younger. Of course, younger children play with each other - just because my mother look after them. But the older guys would prefer to bury into the computer, because we, on the one hand, it is not made to sit in the yard and watch the ten-year son, and the other - is not accepted and let go it alone ».

walking, woke up - gypsum

Experts are convinced: the state not engaged in children's recreation. "Of course, something is being done, but it is too little - say" NO "executive director of NGO" Right of the Child "Boris Altshuler. - Almost is not covered by category guys who have to spend time in the city and have no opportunity to go to a school camp. In the summer they are left to themselves ».
Alas, children's games do not always end happily. As doctors say, the summer months - the most dangerous in terms of child injury. In a special risk group - the boys from 7 to 14 years. First place in the "rating" injuries - street. The most common head injury, then - the hands and feet. And in 35% of cases, they "earn" in the fall, and in 11,8% - in a collision with a carousel or failure of the Congress with a child slides.
In addition, a child who walks by himself, is likely to violate the law. Nothing personal, of course. Someone friends have taken the "low", someone just had not thought about the consequences. "Last summer, two neighborhood girls had nothing to do started throwing apples from a balcony in a parked car at the bottom - said" NO "Muscovite Alexander Zotov. - Most got mine: raskurochennoe windshield, a couple of dents. Parents at this time were at work and left a decade of twins alone. The policeman on my statement only shrugged his shoulders: little children, let parents pay for the damage ».
But the worst consequence of the summer without supervision, according to psychologists, is not it. "The child may feel lonely, useless, if the parents all the time lost from work - explained," NOR "sotsiopsiholog Valeria Mikulina. - In the summer this feeling is particularly acute. In addition, if a child does not develop their communication skills, not learning to adapt to the team, it could seriously affect his future life and damage future career or family ».

Anna Semenova, Sergey Perov, Krasnodar Territory , NATALIA Shergin, St. Petersburg

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