Putting children in summer camp at vacation destination?

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Anonymous wrote:Not on vacation, but if I travel for work in the summer, they go to camp at the biz travel destination if I can make it work.

Yup. My daughter did a week of camp in NYC —she loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:No, but I don't find my kids hard to manage. I'm also a SAHM, so its not a shock to me for them to be around me all day on vacation.

Since you're a SAHM, who not give yourself and the kids a vacation sometime, for a new experience?

Camp is not a vacation experience

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, but I don't find my kids hard to manage. I'm also a SAHM, so its not a shock to me for them to be around me all day on vacation.

Since you're a SAHM, who not give yourself and the kids a vacation sometime, for a new experience?

Camp is not a vacation experience

Ok I have absolutely no opinion on whether SAHMs should or should not put their kids in camp but I will say, I'm pretty sure my kids think camp is better than vacation. If I gave them a choice of a week with us on vacation, or a week at their favorite summer day camp, I think they'd pick camp. Depends on the vacation I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:I never knew this was a thing. Do you enroll your children in camp at your destination location?

Do you not know anyone who puts their kids in ski school during ski vacations? Or signs their kid up for a few days of surf camp on beach vacations?

We have a beach house and my kid went to surf camp for several summers. This wasn’t something we could teach her and she loved it.

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We did a part time sailing camp for a week when we were on Cape Cod because our kids wanted to sail and we couldn't easily rent a boat.

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Seems like forever ago (long before covid), spouse had a remote/flexible job, and I was a teacher. We spent nearly 2 months in ME, and kids did a sailing camp and occasionally some other camps (they are young adults now, and much younger at the time, so I don't remember exactly). But we all remember that as a great summer!

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Anonymous wrote:No, but I don't find my kids hard to manage. I'm also a SAHM, so its not a shock to me for them to be around me all day on vacation.

So am I but that doesn’t mean I need to be around my kids 24/7. They can function without me. I doubt yours can say the same.

Oh bless your heart for worrying about them. They are in HS and college now and I assure you are great.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, but I don't find my kids hard to manage. I'm also a SAHM, so its not a shock to me for them to be around me all day on vacation.

Since you're a SAHM, who not give yourself and the kids a vacation sometime, for a new experience?

Camp is not a vacation experience

Ok I have absolutely no opinion on whether SAHMs should or should not put their kids in camp but I will say, I'm pretty sure my kids think camp is better than vacation. If I gave them a choice of a week with us on vacation, or a week at their favorite summer day camp, I think they'd pick camp. Depends on the vacation I guess.

My kids would never choose camp over vacation.

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There is at least one place in VT that people seem to love where it offers adult and kid camp. It is fairly high end…the kids are entertained with kid camp stuff while the adults get to have guided hikes or rafting trips and what not. The families eat dinners together with entertainment.

Everyone raves the entire family loved it.

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If we go to a beach all-inclusive or not all-inclusive, or mountains, skiing, never a camp. Only for two days when they were young, and we wanted them to learn to ski with a group and with the pro instructor. If I was going for a month or two to my home country, yet, DS attended a tennis camp. He wanted to.
They are now young adults, so this was what we did in the past.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents used to send me to various day camps at vacation destinations. It’s horrible being the outsider in a group, while on vacation!

Pay attention to this post!

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If you have baseball playing kids, the day camps run by the various Cape Cod teams are fun. My kids liked those.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, but I don't find my kids hard to manage. I'm also a SAHM, so its not a shock to me for them to be around me all day on vacation.

Since you're a SAHM, who not give yourself and the kids a vacation sometime, for a new experience?

Camp is not a vacation experience

Ok I have absolutely no opinion on whether SAHMs should or should not put their kids in camp but I will say, I'm pretty sure my kids think camp is better than vacation. If I gave them a choice of a week with us on vacation, or a week at their favorite summer day camp, I think they'd pick camp. Depends on the vacation I guess.

Mine iike both but would be upset if we were on vacation, not specifically for a camp for them and dropped them off at camp. But, we don't take many vacations.

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My parents used to do this. And here’s what I took away from it— they wanted a vacation from me. (1980s, teacher mom home for the summer, so not a working situation).

I mean… no doubt I was a handful as a kid. But, way to make me feel that way.

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I wouldn’t, but we never travel for more than two weeks and always have lots of things we want to do together.
If I was going away all summer I would consider as it’s unlikely you’ll be sightseeing for extended trips.