All Planned

[Anonymous]

I am DONE!!!!

Summer camp is completely organized. Woo hooo!!!!

I have my spreadsheet (yup) completely filled. A few minor questions yet on exactly WHEN we will visit the relatives, but other than that

I

AM

DONE

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(yes. I am shamelessly bragging. please let me!)

[Anonymous]

My oldest is about to make the transition from day care to kindergarden next fall. I gather from your post that filling next summer will be a major task. Please explain why it's not as simple as picking a summer camp and enrolling?

[Anonymous]

If you send your child to one camp with one program for the whole summer, life is simple. But there are lots of camps out there, and you or your child may want to divide the summer, depending on your child's interests.

The camp that's the best fit may fill up before you can register (lots of camps have pregistration periods for members of the group/religion/school).

You child may want to be with friends for some camps, so you have to wait for that family to decide.

You have to know what you're doing for vacation.

Camps announce their schedules at different times, so you have to wait on camp A to see when camp B is offering the things your child wants, then see how that fits in with camp A, which may have filled up in the interim.

[Anonymous]

PP hit most of them. Here are some more.

If you can find a full-time camp you like and can afford, it isn't a big deal.

Even then, that camp may not offer weeks 9 and 10.

Most of the county-run camps have different programs every week. It isn't one decision, it is 5-10.

You may like a camp that fills up 15 seconds after registration opens.

You may be a member of the synagogue without the summer camp, and therefore be "second tier" for registering. Meanwhile, your other options are filling up...

You may want to coordinate camp choices with a visit to a relative in another state - that family may not want to commit in January.

There are camps out there with good programs but lousy extended day.

Your child may want two weeks of soccer... which don't coordinate well with the other offerings. Or, the only soccer camp taking children your child's age for a full day fails to call you back.

You might draw a lousy number in the lottery for the Y, and not have great choices.

[Anonymous]

(sorry - forgot to say that the previous post was the OP)