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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gosh, open YMCA all-summer camps are, and have always been, lord of the flies style. These are not places where happy memories are made - at least not for a big minority of kids.

Find camps that are more focused activity based, where you don't need to find a friend club.  We tend to switch up camps every week, and have always only don't half day camps (DS wants the afternoons to decompress) - so when he was younger, that meant a babysitter who picked him up and hung out with him in the afternoon, and now that he's older, he just chills by himself.

Camps that have been good for him: Sailing, art (even though he's terrible at art), robotics, lego, STEM-center, chess, rowing, cooking, pottery, bounce house, etc etc.  Anything where there's an organized activity, or organized small groups.[/quote]

Do you have any idea what an a-hat you sound like.  Some people need the all-day camp, because they work and can't afford to pay for lots of expensive camps AND a sitter.

Good Lord.

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Stop looking for a fight. I said to look for focused camps, and then said that “we” have done more half day camps with babysitter. Many focused camps have all day program as well. Like sailing camps in our region always offer all day camps, and so does the stem and Lego camps. DS has done many of those all day.

I didn’t suggest in anyway that the solution was half day camps. I just said that worked for us. Yeesh. [/quote]

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