How much time do you spend homeschooling your child during the summer?

I used to do "slow mo" schooling all summer. This year I'm giving them the summer off! I need to rest my brain and so do they. By September I hope we'll all be fresh and recharged. We were just losing our productivity by working all year round.

Same as the rest of the year. About 3-4 hours a day with a week off whenever we want. In response to the naysayers above, education should never stop. It's far better to keep the mind active all year then to try and get back into the swing of things after a three month break.

During the summer? Of me requiring something from them? Maybe about 5-10 minutes. But this doesn't include the things they choose to do, like dd wrote a poem, and reading and doing physical activity and art and looking up stuff we want to know about and...

Well that depends on how the school year has gone. Mostly we just do a little reading and maybe practice math facts a little, plus a daily devotional time as a family. We continue the twice a month co-op classes. If a child really needs extra work in a subject because he or she didn't quite "get it" during the school year, then we will probably work a little more. Either way, we don't go beyond 1 hour, not including free reading time.

you dont homeschool your kid during the summer. its summertime. let them hang out with their friends, if your not too busy living her life for her. children dont deserve to be homeschooled. they need to live the life they want to live, and make friends.

about 2 hours a day 3 days a week

Our kids learn all the time.....so we don't have to force them to start learning or stop learning. :-) When we were really big on producing proof of learning with paperwork, we did year round, with a month off in December, a month in spring and a month in the fall when everyone else went back to school. Our summers are also too hot and sticky, over 100º most days, so spring and fall are much better for not working and just enjoying the day. It's also nice to do summer things once all the public schoolers go back to school, we have the pools and theaters with about half as many children.

We read from a 9th grade literature book of short stories. My son has an education phobia so we set the timer for 30 minutes. He reads and writes on My Space and that is better than nothing. He has network of local friends there. So, basically we de-school during the summer. He also has a work phobia but we don't limit his helping out around the house to 30 minutes a day. He averages about 2 hours a day doing yard work/housework.

We homeschool everyday! We are doing year round school and we love it! We go for about 3 months then have 2-3 weeks off. But even during the off weeks we still do school because my daughter does unschooling....she is constatnly learning things she is interested in... sports, gardening, art.