40 days of summer vacation, the child's expenses are 50,000 or 60,000? Parents post bills: Hurry up to start school, the wallet can't stand it

"Every holiday wallet halved", whether parents' wallets are still "safe" during the summer vacation, recently, the topic #Parents complain about the cost of 560,000 children in 40 days of summer vacation # rushed to the hot search.

Searching on Xiaohongshu with "summer vacation bill" as the keyword, you will find that many parents post a family of three who spent 10,000 yuan on a 5-day domestic trip, and if they extend the time, or choose to travel abroad, the cost will reach 30,000 to 50,000.

In the comment area, some netizens believe that the "huge" expenses of 50,000 or 60,000 are parents showing off.

But many netizens believe that this number is normal and understandable, and said that their children's summer expenses are even more!

Some netizens directly posted a detailed cost list of their "gold-swallowing beasts" ↓

In the face of a high "summer bill", some parents sighed: "It's really the baby's summer vacation, I bleed", "I hope the baby starts school quickly, otherwise my wallet really can't stand it!" Some netizens also sent out soul torture: Where is the main consumption of summer bills?

Summer spending is the most from 5,000 to 10,000

According to the Times Weekly, Xu Ling is a mother of two children, 45 years old this year, living in Beijing, the youngest daughter has just entered primary school, and the eldest daughter is in the third year of junior high school, in an important stage of further education. Xu Ling analyzed the composition of summer expenses, "The big expenditure is traveling with children. ”

Since she had not taken her children on long-distance trips for several years, Xu Ling took her children to Yunnan to "Sahuaner" this summer. "We went together as two families in total, and the three adults and four children spent a total of nearly 40,000, including 20,000 round-trip air tickets, 4,000 accommodation, local car rental, fuel, etc. about 4,500."

Make-up fees are also a large amount of expense. Because her eldest daughter is about to enter high school, Xu Ling arranged a one-on-one subject make-up class for her, "physics is 800 yuan a session, 16 times, it is 12,000 eight, mathematics back home supplement is 200 yuan a piece, ten classes is 2,000 yuan."

In addition, Xu Ling also arranged some interest classes for the two children, such as piano, dance and spoken English, "these courses add up to about 10,000 less." ”

This is not an isolated case, a media outlet in Wenzhou recently launched a survey on summer spending for family groups.

The survey data shows that families spending between 5,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan in the summer are the most, accounting for 35.27%, followed by families spending 2,000-5,000 yuan and 10,000-30,000 yuan respectively, with a proportion of 30.62% and 23.64%, and these three options alone account for nearly ninety percent, and the consumption span is quite large.

According to the Qianjiang Evening News, Ms. Jin's children were promoted to the fifth grade after the start of school, and she said that she was a "lying flat" parent, and the four courses arranged for her children during the summer vacation were all hobton: badminton, drawing, dance, pencil writing, which added up to more than 10,000 yuan. Coupled with a trip with children, the cost is also more than 10,000 yuan, adding up to nearly 30,000.

Another mother of two children said that she did not sign up for any classes for her children during the summer vacation, but only took her children to Nanjing and the surrounding areas by car a few times, and lived in relatives' homes, and the cost of a summer vacation was about 2,000 to 3,000 yuan. In daily time, she arranges for her children to study at home in the morning, study in public welfare science venues, libraries and other places in the afternoon, and also arrange for her children to do housework at home. She said: "This kind of does not cost money but is laborious, and it is more expensive to enroll in training courses for children, after all, there are so many children in the tutoring class, and there are definitely no parents who know their children better one-on-one." ”

Judging from the data, most parents in this survey are more rational in summer spending. 34.88% of families spend only 20%-50% of their monthly household income, and even 27.13% of families are below 20%, and only about 20% of household expenses will reach more than half of their overall monthly income.

Interest classes and travel are the bulk of summer spending

The survey found that interest classes and travel accounted for the bulk of half of parents' summer vacation expenditure, while subject study and summer care also ranked third and fourth with 15.1% and 13.26%.

Ms. Dong, a parent, said that she went to Beijing without signing up for any interest classes for her children during the summer vacation, spending more than 10,000 yuan. She said that this year's increase in travel expenses has directly increased the amount of summer vacation expenses.

Summer care is more of a helpless move than dual-income families. A parent whose child has just entered the first grade of primary school mentioned that he also has to work in the summer, and the elderly at home usually take their children very hard, it just so happens that her child's private school will open summer nursery classes every year, and this year she signed up for a month's nursery for her child, which is a convenient picture.

Another change worth noting this year is that a small number of parents have included expenses such as straightening teeth and wearing myopia glasses in their summer plans, which seems to confirm the reason why the annual optometry hospital and the stomatology department of major hospitals are "hard to find".

Study tours are popular

Beijing charges 5380 yuan per person for 5 days

In addition, this year's popular "study tour" is also the choice of many parents.

According to Red Star Capital Bureau, Baidu's search index shows that from 2019 to 2022, the search index of "research" has never exceeded 1,500 points, and the overall daily average is 787 points; Since the beginning of this year, its search index has exceeded 2300 points, and the overall daily average is 1253 points.

Among all the study trips, the most popular destination is Beijing.

Ye Tian (pseudonym), a staff member of a research institution, told Red Star Capital that there is no place for the Beijing study group during the summer vacation, if you want to register, you can only wait until the National Day holiday, the whole activity is a total of five days, the registration fee is 5380 yuan / person, will lead students to visit Tsinghua University, the Forbidden City, the Old Summer Palace and the Badaling Great Wall.

It should be noted that the study group only allows primary and secondary school students over the age of 8 to participate independently, and parents cannot sign up to follow.

At the same time, Red Star Capital Bureau found that if you join a tour group that also includes accommodation and does not include transportation expenses to and from Beijing, the price of a five-day group tour is more than 2,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan. In other words, the cost of study tours is about twice as expensive as that of regular tours.

"Ordinary tour groups will only tell some general things, but we will add some short stories according to different places, such as adding an emperor's story to the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City, which children love to hear, understand, and can understand the history of these buildings more deeply." Ye Tian said to the Red Star Capital Bureau.

In addition to domestic research activities, there are also institutions that organize primary school students to go to other countries for research.

Taking an institution as an example, it launched a study group to Australia during the National Day holiday, charging 15,000 yuan per person (excluding round-trip air tickets and visa fees), which will lead students to daily English classes and visit famous attractions in Australia.

The staff of the agency told Red Star Capital that the study group is mainly aimed at students aged 10-18, who have classes in the morning and play in the afternoon, "The first day of English classes teaches children simple greetings, and then goes to Melbourne's main attractions so that they can use these English when playing." ”

Unlike most study groups, this study group allows parents to sign up and follow, and the cost is also 15,000 yuan per person.

Editor|He Xiaotao, Du Bo proofreader|Cheng Peng

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