My son is only 1, so I'll provide my summer tips from how my mother raised me. The summer is supposed to be a time to explore, a time to stay busy, and a time for fun summer activities.

My best advice to parents who are concerned about summer learning tips is to keep it explorative! As a child growing up in Los Angeles, there we always a plethora of activities for my mom to get me involved in during the school year. From sport, modeling, acting, visual and performing arts, you name it I was involved in it, but many of these program end their sessions for the summer so that parents can creatively find ways to keep their children active during the summer months, and since my mom worked during the week we planned our weekends instead.

A good Monday -Friday summer routine for kids under the age of 10 would be summer day camp. Many park and recreation offer this program, and they take dozens of kids to all of the amusement parks, museums and other historical locations in the areas. I also took swimming lesson through day camp, and learn lots of arts and craft ideas like sewing and home-ed tips that I still use today.

Now once a child is in middle school I feel that a 1/2 day summer school program is a good Monday - Friday routine. (They can take a class that they had trouble in during the school year or choose to take a class that is just something they may be interested in, but I would suggest letting the child decide, if the school offers that option)

Finally a great Monday - Friday routine for a teenager 14+ is taking a course at a community college. I took a few classes starting form the time I was 15. Little did we know that I ended up graduating from High School earlier and the courses also counted when I got admitted to college!

My advice for weekend summer tips for young kids would be build a tent, go camping in the back yard and let them explore geography. As for middle school aged kids let them volunteer with a community group, assign your own personal summer reading and give an awesome incentive for every book report they submit.  For High School kids I think a summer job is essential in teaching responsibilities, but they too should have an occasional off day so that they don't get burnt out, but a great idea is also for high school kids to do mentoring.

Movies are always a good summer learning tip, because you don't always have to take your kids to see the latest box office hit. Most of the older theaters in the major cities run documentaries, and other profound short films, which can be a great learning experience.

Of course summer full for everyone also includes VACATIONS and trips :) Planning a one week trip every summer may be a lot of work, but the experience of traveling is well worth it!

Also weekend fun can included exposing kids to the things that the city/state has to offer. In Los Angeles there are so many districts and historic location, that to simply tour the city is an event, but it's good for your child to become familiar with the area in which they grown up in. I recall one year my mom and I just acted as though we were LA tourist. Because sometimes when you live in an area with a high level of tourism you avoid the tourist spots because of traffic and congestion. But we went to see the Hollywood sign, and to all the malls in southern California (window shopping of course), we just went every where that So. Cal had to offer, and now it's funny because I know where everything is located in LA and my friends always call me like how do you get to this place? Eventually we took our escapades up north and to San Diego, but ultimately Traveling is essential for summer learning.