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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We didn't go to camp except for day camps here or there, but nearly all my summer days until I could work were spent at the pool from morning to night. I'd walk there from my house, meet up with my friends, and spend the entire day swimming and eating from the snack bar.  Our pool would have teen nights and we'd hang out for that too and then walk home...in the dark! If I wasn't at the pool, I would be out roaming the neighborhood with friends or playing Nintendo at someone's house or sunbathing (no sunscreen!) and reading my seventeen magazines in the backyard. Both of my parents worked and I had older siblings, so I was on my own most of time. My favorite memory of summer was being out all day and coming back to an ice-cold air conditioned house and drinking a cold diet sprite (since that was the only soda we were allowed to have), turning on Oprah and chilling out in front of the tv.  loved those times! now my kids are programmed all summer long at overnight camps and other activities. [/quote]

Programmed summers are super depressing. I hope the next generation changes that [/quote]

Until I was 10 I had "unprogrammed" summers... day camps some weeks, a lot of staying at home, wishing my friends would come home from vacations, not talking to most people I had gone to school with, begging my mother to take us to the shitty town beach. no sports, no nothing.

After 10, I went to 8 week summer camp, had tons of friend, went on adventures, camped in the wilderness for days, did ropes courses, rode horses, learned to sail and basically developed all of my recreational interests I had as an adult.

I would rather make sure my kids have a variety of camps and activities to go to—with healthy input from them on what it is, and careful thought to make sure there's lots of interactions with their friends—than having them sit at home and watch youtube shorts, which is what unstructured summer is now. [/quote]

All the parents that ship their kids off to camp and wipe their hands ALWAYS rationalize their kids would just stare at screens.  It just seems like you aren’t good parents and rather not parent your kids or let them have great summers with their own friends at home.

Paying a camp to find friends for your kids is so strange. And all the counselors care about is getting laid. It’s not like they really like working with your kids.

I sent my one of my kids to Camp Hidden Meadows after her best friend begged and they talked about counting  used condoms in the woods for fun. [/quote]

So you weren’t a good enough parent to say no to camp?  You know -  the place where lazy parents send the kids they don’t love and don’t want to parent?  You didn’t want them to have fun with their friends at home that week? Seems like you can’t live up to your own standards. [/quote]

I think there is a big difference between a week or two of camp vs shipping your kid off to camp for the entire summer. It’s not for me but I wouldn’t send my kids to boarding school either. To each their own. [/quote]

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