to give my dc's some school work over the summer holidays

[justalittlelemondrizzle]

My dc's 7 & 8 break up for the summer this week and I've bought them some English and maths work books to do over the holidays.
I usually do print outs of things that have come up on their reports that they have struggled with and set them a fun project.
Most of the summer is going to be about them having fun and enjoying some downtime. They have lots of friends round our area who they enjoy playing with all the time. Is it wrong for me to get them to do some work a few days a week for maybe 45 minutes at a time so they don't slip behind.
They're pretty average. My eldest tries hard and is doing well ut got a working towards in maths on her report and my youngest is very lazy and that did show on her report this year with a few working towards when I know she is capable. Do other people do this or am I being a mean mummy?

[throwingpebbles]

Just thinking about this today... My little boy got back from a week at his dad's and I had bought him a fee treats - fancy pen, new story and (as an experiment based on this thread) a maths work book... I thought I would be amazed if he even did a few pages over the summer ...... He was so excited he sat down and didn't stop till he had finished the whole book

[throwingpebbles]

(Took about an hour I think. Rest of the day will be spent doing Lego/garden/ playing with cousins and a trip to the toyshop to blow his pocket money on plastic tat!)