Have you made your summer plans yet? \u00a0Whether you are fortunate enough to be planning a family trip or trying to put together a decent child care plan, the school year is coming to an end and ‘what to do about summer’ has probably been part of your recent thinking.<\/p>\n

<\/a>While babysitting, dog walking and gardening are still options for a lot of kids, technology has certainly opened up some additional possibilities.<\/p>\n

Seriously… so many of us joke about how much more intuitively middle and high school students are able to organize our laptops or set up a quick website. \u00a0 Why not let them?<\/p>\n

[Tweet “We joke about how much more easily\u00a0kids \u00a0organize our digital media…”]<\/p>\n

Let them help you make a list of some of those aggravating “to dos” that are cluttering up your office or your hard drive…. \u00a0whether it’s labeling and uploading digital photos you’d like to share, scanning documents, \u00a0re-tagging blog posts for better SEO or setting up a FaceBook page<\/a> for your business, the best person for the job may be closer than you think.<\/p>\n

[Tweet “This might make a good virtual summer job for someone you know.”]<\/p>\n

What other digital chores would you like to get some help with? \u00a0Recording podcasts? Adding media to your website’s library? Playlists and albums? Cloud back-up? Setting up meet-ups or a virtual book club?<\/p>\n

What do your kids have to offer? \u00a0You may even want to help them share those skills with family and friends. \u00a0What do you think? What online chores would you like to offload?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer jobs help teach kids a lot of valuable life skills but with so many adults out of work is that really a solution for your family? Maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[99,128,497,519,599],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-four-foundations","category-parenting","tag-digital","tag-economy","tag-solutions","tag-summer-job","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}