shuamort

Our kids get a week off after school and then they're all in day camp from 8am-5pm until mid-august. That's helped. But dinner is a different story and we always give our kids a heads-up that we're giving them dinner in twenty minutes and announce that their friends can come back afterwards if they'd like (then ten minutes, 5 minutes, etc) so it gives them time to wrap it up with their friends until after dinner.

It might be harder to set up the boundaries now, but explaining the situation to your kids first might help. They, in turn, can tell their friends. You might want to have the kids do picnics (depending on age, etc) and pack your kids lunches and have them encourage their friends to bring their lunches too and they can eat outside together and still hangout.