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[quote=Anonymous]My kids did sleep away camp in WV last year with some local friends and didn't love it. Lots of homesickness and underwhelmed by some of the teen staff (one of whom was caught recording kids in his high school bathroom this past year, so yeah . . .). So no sleep away camp this year. This week they are doing day camp out where our second home is. We would support them if they wanted to go to sleepaway camp but we're a pretty close knit family and we don't like being away from each other. (My 10 year slept over grandma's house recently and sent me a bunch of messages in the middle of the night crying about how she felt the same "gloominess" she did at camp.)

For some reason my husband is super into signing our kids up for camps even though he wasn't a big camp kid growing up (didn't have the financial resources we do). He has found most of the camps they've gone to. But he wouldn't sign them up without telling me . . . that's odd. Just as I wouldn't sign them up for something that affects our summer plans without telling him. We tend to have pretty full summers with one or two trips to my family beach house, trips to our second home, a week of camp here or there . . . We don't really have the time or appetite for a long sleepaway camp.

I grew up Protestant in a Jewish neighborhood and most of my friends went to sleepaway camp for 4 or 8 weeks, so it depends on your area and culture obviously. We choose to spend our extra money on our second home and vacations versus private school, so I can't speak to what the private school crowd does. [/quote]

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