Reply to Do many more kids go to overnight camps these days?

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "Do many more kids go to overnight camps these days? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never done it and I never will. That's not how I parent.[/quote]

This could have come out of my mom's mouth, along with the stuff about a missing bond and all that. I obviously never went. She talked about parents who didn't want their kids around, how she could never let us go, etc. I recognized it for the bragging it was even as a kid.

We will send our kids when they are old enough. I don't want to do what my mom did in this respect.[/quote]

My kids and I are closer than imaginable. But every year since they were 10-11, they have gone to camp for a week. Not because I need a break, or because I want to do something for myself, but because they want to. They have a blast, and the independence is great for their social/emotional development and self -esteem. I miss them every second they are gone, but it's not about me.

I'm absolutely dumbfounded that people seem to equate one week of summer camp to sending your kid to live with the nanny for the first 18 years, and I believe that people who refuse to let kids who want to experience camp go are thinking only of themselves and doing their kids a disservice. [/quote]

Could not agree more.  Some kids actually LOVE going to camp; more power to them![/quote]

Going one week because they ask and being sent off on an airplane to 8 weeks of camp are two very different things. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics