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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No PP.  Parents in this area seem to like that their children "need" them all of the time.  If your child goes to camp for a month and is fine and has a great time, it hurts your sense of "being needed."  So they say things like, "It must be something about the parents to want to send your kid away to camp for weeks at a time."  I am secure enough to know that my son can  1) live without me for 2-4 weeks   2) and have an awesome time without me there.  Parents seem to like when their kids cling to them.  When my son went to camp for the first summer, I saw parents going overboard saying goodbye to them.  Crying, hugging, etc.  They wanted their kids to act like this because in their minds, if they just walked away and were fine, it meant the kid didn't love them or didn't care.  Kids should not be having to comfort their adult parents.  I hugged my son and he walked away and turned around and rolled his eyes when he walked past a mom crying like a baby over her son.  I knew he would be just fine for 2 weeks without me and he was.  He is at camp now for a month (his choice).  His postcards say that he caught a few fish, he loves smores and he is going on an out of camp horseback riding trip next week.  [/quote]

Why can't anyone ever accept that people make different parenting choices and both choices can be right for their families?  So sick of seeing parents trying to justify their choice as the "right" one .[/quote]

Yes me too especially when overnight camp is way out of our budget.  You know, food, lights, electricity, housing.  I have to pay for those, so no overnight camps.[/quote]

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