The cost of summer camp + budgeting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t you all scared of potential sexual abuse at sleep away camps?

Nope!

Check the stats on that. It's more likely to be your brother, husband, or father.

It's far more likely that my kid will be in a road accident than that happening and I still put my kid in the car every day.

[Anonymous]

Yeah true that the most likely people to sexually abuse a child would be their relatives, however if I were an abuser the next best place would be to work at a sleep away camp where a kid is isolated from their family for an extended time period. It would also give the perpetrator enough time to groom the kid and then…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah true that the most likely people to sexually abuse a child would be their relatives, however if I were an abuser the next best place would be to work at a sleep away camp where a kid is isolated from their family for an extended time period. It would also give the perpetrator enough time to groom the kid and then…

I am sorry that you have to live with thoughts like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah true that the most likely people to sexually abuse a child would be their relatives, however if I were an abuser the next best place would be to work at a sleep away camp where a kid is isolated from their family for an extended time period. It would also give the perpetrator enough time to groom the kid and then…

I am sorry that you have to live with thoughts like this.

Sleepwear camp is for parents that wanna get rid of their kids so they don’t care about this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah true that the most likely people to sexually abuse a child would be their relatives, however if I were an abuser the next best place would be to work at a sleep away camp where a kid is isolated from their family for an extended time period. It would also give the perpetrator enough time to groom the kid and then…

I am sorry that you have to live with thoughts like this.

Me too. My profession and my personal experiences have shown me that children get abused in situations we don’t expect and by people that we are supposed to trust. I don’t want that for my daughters so I think a bit defensively, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah true that the most likely people to sexually abuse a child would be their relatives, however if I were an abuser the next best place would be to work at a sleep away camp where a kid is isolated from their family for an extended time period. It would also give the perpetrator enough time to groom the kid and then…

I am sorry that you have to live with thoughts like this.

Sleepwear camp is for parents that wanna get rid of their kids so they don’t care about this

Yes. It is certainly not because children overwhelmingly enjoy sleepaway camp and find it to be a positive experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have 2 ES aged kids who go to day camp for most of the summer. I budget for it at about the same cost as 2 months of daycare because we need childcare. Recently, I’ve started to look at sleep away camps and I’m blown away by the cost. On the one hand, a lot of staff are needed, and the cost includes activities, food, accommodations, etc. On the other hand, it’s so much more expensive than day camp. The extra cost could fund a really nice family vacation, 529 accounts, or retirement. In some groups, sleep away camp seems fairly common. In others, less so. Right now, it feels like more of a budget decision than a “kid would enjoy” decision.

Do you send your kid(s) to sleep away camp? How do you budget for it? What % of your HHI do you spend on camp?

Yes, 3 weeks of sleep away camp on another country for freight language immersion.

I don't budget for it, it's just an expense.

I never thought to calculate that as a percent of income. I see no point in this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have 2 ES aged kids who go to day camp for most of the summer. I budget for it at about the same cost as 2 months of daycare because we need childcare. Recently, I’ve started to look at sleep away camps and I’m blown away by the cost. On the one hand, a lot of staff are needed, and the cost includes activities, food, accommodations, etc. On the other hand, it’s so much more expensive than day camp. The extra cost could fund a really nice family vacation, 529 accounts, or retirement. In some groups, sleep away camp seems fairly common. In others, less so. Right now, it feels like more of a budget decision than a “kid would enjoy” decision.

Do you send your kid(s) to sleep away camp? How do you budget for it? What % of your HHI do you spend on camp?

Yes, 3 weeks of sleep away camp on another country for freight language immersion.

I don't budget for it, it's just an expense.

I never thought to calculate that as a percent of income. I see no point in this.

Foreign language. Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t you all scared of potential sexual abuse at sleep away camps?

Nope. I was abused at home. I was safe at sleepaway camp with the friends I made there, and the college girls who were my camp counselors.