I am a combo of chore list, creative and enrichment.

Enrichment mom. I wished I was chore list mom, but I could never manage that. As for what my children would call me, not on the list ;-)

Combo Creative and Enrichment with my DD.

Oh, how I miss those days. 🥲

I was Go Outside and Play Mom. We fortunately lived in a kid-friendly neighborhood, and I worked from home most of the years raising them so could keep an eye on them. They had outdoor toys, sidewalk chalk, scooters, etc., and a park up the street. Occasionally, there were camps and enrichment trips, but primarily, their summers consisted of playing outside.

SueB, I agree... it was all a blur.

All the above, except camp was team sport camps or cheerleading. Screen time was TV watching, repeats of The Monkees were welcome on rainy afternoons. Our daughter and her friends had a hard time accepting that Davy Jones had been around for years before they discovered him.

I think I am also combo Creative/Enrichment mom but will confirm once I ask DD.

Some of each filtered into our lives depending on their ages and with 4 years between our boys there was a big difference in freedoms. We had wonderful nature based park district camps where they'd be gone 2 - 4 nights/week but home the rest. We always spent 2 weeks at a cabin in MI and spent days at the beach or on the boat, had property in WI where we'd camp. My boys were not craft types but both learned to cook so some of that must have happened during summers.

Combo: camp, creative, enrichment- we did some of everything. Chores never made the list, unfortunately.....

Camp mom. But....some of that was specialty camps. We had an upstate home and both DD’s spent summers at horseback camps and drama camp.

I was a Girl Scout Leader for both daughters so craft projects were built in to during the year.

In my town all the kids were kept busy during summer we followed suit as no would be around for playdates.

We would do extra special activities like a Broadway show as a family usually during the year.

Enrichment. I do not have a creative bone in my body. I would probably be called Pedantic Mom - I was always supplementing whatever was on the school curriculum with my own, no doubt boring, disquisitions.

Bookwoman, when I said my children would have another word for me, pedantic is very close. I was just thinking of what exactly they would say, which in colloquial French is chiante.

Creative Mom & Enrichment Mom Combo. We created, read, explored, hiked, visited museums and art galleries, traveled, whatever. I was told that I could never get pregnant because of severe endometriosis and 2 surgeries for it, and I wanted to be a mom so badly! When we finally adopted our baby son, I swore I'd be the best mom I could be! And, I was. Nine years later I got pregnant for the first and only time with DD. Same thing. I absolutely loved/love being a mom!

Camp Mom here. We lived in Florida and the kids went to camp in North Carolina for eight weeks. It was much cooler and a completely different environment for them. We spent a week at our lake house in Alabama at the end of summer on the drive home from camp.

A combo…my kids did a ton of camps, mostly sports….but what I really consudered myself was ”physical activity mom!” My kids were super active and we spent time doing sports and/or swimming every day. We of course also did enrichment activities…but the general theme was physical activity.🏃‍♂️🏈🎾🥍⛳️🥅

Creative/Enrichment, although each kid went to camp for a week each summer. Enrichment was never school work, but travel or other experiences. One summer when my son was about 7, I asked him to make up an Adventure List for the summer. I went into it worried that he was going to put "Go to Disney," and a bunch of other high $ stuff. Instead, he wrote, "1. Explore the attic 2. Visit a fire station 3. Go outside during a storm," etc. The simple requests nearly broke my heart. We did all the things.

I am, without a doubt, Enrichment Mom. That goes hand in hand with being a home school mom.

I don't have kids, but my mom was Chore List Mom. We were to be up and functional by 8:00. Breakfast and kitchen picked up by 8:30. Bed made, room tidied, regular chores done by 9:00. After that, a little loose depending on what she had in mind. Much time spent entertaining myself. AND I TURNED OUT JUST FINE! 😄

I think there were brief moments of all the above but I was mostly the Creative/chore list mom.

My boys were in charge of cleaning their own bathroom pre teen on, if not done properly they had to do it over. I can't remember the age, maybe fourteen, they had to do their own laundry. Around seventeen or so they off and on went with me grocery shopping where I sent them about the store for certain items along with instructions on what to look for. I felt many boys weren't prepared for real life after graduation. There were many other prepare for life educations as well. When they were young I had an art shop sectioned off in the garage with a/c. Lots of fun projects went on there and often with neighboring kids involved.

Combo Chore List and Enrichment mom. Our small town built a huge swimming pool and I loved going there with the boys & chat with other moms.

We loved going to the children's book stores which are long gone.

JT, I had to apologize to my DIL's for not teaching my sons how to clean house. Now they do a better job than I do!

Camps, travel teams, all that jazz, I just wrote a check and deposited the boys at the appropriate airports and venues. I was much less involved than at school since most of that stuff happened far from home. There was a lot of shopping for equipment, clothes and such prior to thise trips.

I was the best mom I could be. We did a huge renovation, razing our house to ground level and we lived with our 3 year old twins in the basement. Taught them to read down there, showed them the differnt processes going on with the reno, and learned to live with few creature comforts. They are both successful young women in their chosen fields, so I think we did okay. We also did dance for years, swim team, basketball, soccer...

Bestyears, love that story about your sweet son!

I think I was This Will Look Good on Your High School/College Application Mom.

In the places we have lived it was considered downright neglectful not to have them in some sort of camp/s or activity. What they did varied by kid and by year, but they were always doing something. Plus we usually did a 2-or-3-week vacation as a family, and had either a lakehouse or a beachhouse to go to.

SInce middle school they were assigned summer schoolwork too, which I made sure they did and did in depth, not just checking the box.

I was juggling mom, getting my kids to whatever camps they were each doing and rushing off to work; then rushing back to pick them up and get back home for dinner. Whew, makes me tired just thinking about it. I’m glad those days are done, frankly; DS has his doctorate and dream job, DD is starting grad school. It all worked out, and they got enriched somehow!

Ded, your children are closer to my age, than my children's. That was a different world. Benign neglect turns out to have been way better than neurotic vigilence on the whole. Game, set and match on that one.

NOT saying you were neglectful, ded. Just saying we Xers were brought up to be more independent, which I think is good.

@dedtired….not RottenMom at all! TennisMom is more like ir…and nothing wrong with that!

No overnight camps for my kids but lots of sports camps, park activity camps, swimming lessons with free time thrown in and don't ever tell me that you're bored or you'll be pulling weeds.

I was lousy with the chores as well.

Enrichment, creative, with a little camp thrown in. My kids went to fun classes, such as robot building, golf and marine life. My daughter did more day camps and my son went to Boy Scout camp for a week or two every year. We love the beach and are close enough they took surfing classes, as well as day trips to the beach a couple of times a week. Swim lessons, Library reading club. Pool days. Other local day trips and family vacations. Miss those days, I was always sad when my kids went back to school, we always had such fun over summer.

I was a combination of Camp Queen (elementary years) and Fend for Yourself Mom (high school, mostly). I was working; I needed child care, and camp was it.

My own mom was a Fend for Yourself Mom. I grew up on a farm, and we ran around all summer. There were chores, but they didn't increase because we were out of school. I had one week of away camp (Girl Scout camp) in my elementary years, and we usually had a week of vacation bible school

Interesting to see the responses. Funny that none of us are Last Minute Mom! Around here, camps fill up early in the year so if you’re Last Minute Mom, you’re Outta Luck Mom.

My mom was creative mom when I was very young, but became chore mom and fend for yourself mom pretty early.

I took my kids to our beach cottage for several weeks each summer, while DH visited on weekends. It was fun but also a lot of work but of course like many things in life, I mostly have only sweet memories of that time and have blocked out the tantrums and sibling arguments LOL.

I also had to be Structured Mom because our oldest had special needs and had to have a predictable routine as much as possible. He went to camps (they all did, just not all summer) but there wasn’t any camp in Aug so I was in full Enrichment/Creative mode then.

This is easy: Was a combo mom. Chore list included house/yard work; exercise; and academic enrichment) Creative Mom +Enrichment mom. They earned points for books read/math sheets they could trade for 'gifts' like a trip to the movie theatre/fast food lunch etc. We ALWAYS had crafts of all sorts around and a project in process. I have a walk way of their art immortalized in stepping stones. DH would take Friday's off and we would head to all the cultural opportunities the big city offered and miss the weekend crowds. We did stacations years before they became a 'thing'. As a child I went to camp several years, but never found one for my kids instead as they got older theatre camps and scouting filled the gaps. I am soooo glad 'screen mom' wasn't even a possibility. We had dial up internet and no cable tv!! Being an at home mom gave me hours of time for them and their development. IDK what mine would say but they tell me when they have kids they will bring them to grandma camp!!!

I think I was "Random" mom. We definitely did work books, and lots of summers started with a blank journal to write/collect in. We had a 'field trip jar' that they(and me) filled with chits of things to do, and if we decided it was field trip day they would grab one or two or three and off we'd go. Definitely weekly trips to the library and we would leave with big tote bags full of books. Our sunroom would be the depository and the floor would be covered with bodies and books and pillows. There were chores, mostly picking tomatoes, and peas. And the one summer of the horned worm infestations where they got paid a dollar a worm(Ew!) FIshing and swimming and lots of 'go play outside' they built a fort by the creek. One of the two always went to camp(2 weeks only, it was a special camp for Type 1 D's) the other tried camps but they never were a super hit. Lots of mini golf- which we still play almost everytime we are together. If we are driving and pass a putt-putt a roar goes up in the car to stop.

Day camp mom here. Fortunate to live in a town where they had a great, affordable day camp program. My two children went to day camp for 6 weeks of the summer from 9am to 3pm. This allowed me to work at home during those hours. The campers swam in the town pool, played sports outside, did crafts, etc. We had an in ground pool in our yard, so after camp was spent by the pool. 6,7,& 8th graders did adventure camp. 3 days a week, travel by bus to area attractions, water parks, etc. They couldn't wait till they were old enough for that. In high school, my daughter worked as a life guard at the town pool and my son opted for camp counselor.

My 26 yo son was reminiscing last week about how much fun he had at camp with his friends.

I'm a creative plus enrichment. I had three children by the age of 23 as I had a serious illness and I asked the dr. when should I get pregnant, his answer was "yesterday". I am happiest when I'm with children and we are doing creative, fun times that pop into my mind. I took them to all the museums in Boston, showed them good times and we all would be together as a group of happy people. We still do that. go to openings etc. They are all gifted artists as are my grandchildren and great grand so we travel to other countries often and just got back from Spain where we saw most of Dali's work and others. We go to our Maine house together and have had wonderful times. Now my husband has Alzheimer's and it's more difficult but we still laugh and play. My favorite thing in life is hearing laughter. As in life, it's never always easy, I do all I can to help my siblings and lift their spirits during those times which seem to be happening more often. My favorite song is SMILE.

Yaygal, you are just so huggable happy!

To add to my above, we didn't have the means for overnight camps when my children were young. We did do local golf, tennis camps and camps where they had different outings each day such as museums, parks plays and such. They had to be spaced out for my two boys though as even those were pricey.

My mother was a fend-for-yourself mom, but she did not work outside the house while I was living there. She did go back to teaching school when I went off to university, and then she retired from that when she reached 62.

She was a bit of en enrichment mom and took me to private violin lessons and sister to piano lessons. She also played the piano and sang opera for us and would take me to the opera, ballet, and symphony when she had the opportunity, but the nearest large city was 120 miles away. We were 70 miles from Austin, but it was a cultural wasteland in the 1950s, and so we had to go to San Antonio, Dallas, or Houston, all of which were close to the same distance from us. I went to a rural school until high school, but by then it was too late for me to become part of the high school orchestra. I did get to see Maria Callas in Dallas in 1958.