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[quote=Anonymous]So much of this is dependent on the kid. My daughter started sleep away camp when she was 10, and would have been ready earlier (but covid). She reported that multiple girls in her cabin were homesick and cried a lot. She's now 13 and will be doing a 2 week exchange overseas through a school program this summer. She's nervous about that, in a way she was never nervous about camp. And had she not been doing overnight camps for the last few years, I don't know how she'd feel about going on the exchange. She definitely wouldn't want to be away for 2 months yet though, and she's a pretty independent kid. Easing them in by starting with shorter stints and seeing how that goes is helpful. My son is 10 and adamantly does not want to go to overnight camp. I'm also pretty sure that if he went, he probably wouldn't shower the entire time and would lose half of his belongings. He's a much younger 10 than his sister was. [/quote]
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