Finally, this issue affects all working parents. The average summer camp costs over $300 per week, and many families simply cannot afford to pay that amount — let alone the headaches caused by shorter hours and lack of transportation. Just last week I knocked on a door where a mom had come home from work and had been forced to leave her middle-school daughter alone with her toddler sons all day because her children's summer care had closed unexpectedly and she had to go to work. Now she and many other parents have to worry about another week each year of trying to hold it all together. Parents from all income brackets who rely on camps and daytime care for our children are picking up the tab for the governor's nod to tourism, and that's not right.