Summer is real should be slower and balanced, but do not put all college prep activities on the shelf for two months. What are you supporting your scholar in doing for college prep this summer? Some suggestions: they should keep reading (it does not matter what, just read), join a book club or read a book together as a family and discuss it, explore interests or get in some community service, start looking at college interest, or even begin building the list for 10th and 11th graders, and look for ways to encourage their responsibility and independence tasks or behaviors