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[quote=Anonymous]My two older daughters were long time campers then counselors at a camp I then sent their (much) younger sister to. I at first looked around for a friend for her to go with but my older daughter said that kids did best when they went on their own. That the kids who had the most difficult time as first time campers were often the ones who came with friends as these kids either were insular and didn't really join in with others or if one of the pair or more was having a bad time the other(s) in friendship had their experience colored by this unhappiness or spent time trying to buck up other. They also said that it was worse when we 'checked in' (not letters/care packages!!) as that took them out of being fully at the camp. Let your daughter navigate this time on her own (unless she's crazy unhappy.) You picked camp hopefully because you trusted it as a safe camp and one where you daughter would find something amazing about herself. I think this time of structured self reliance is so amazing for kids and let her find her way. PS-I always encouraged my kids to write themselves a note right after camp when they were still high on the best things camp offered so that come spring, when we started looking at signing up again, the memories of that came back and not the times that they were unhappy[/quote]

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