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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on how truly stressed she’s been, OP.  I also have an eight year old daughter, and she was so, so miserable for the first 7 weeks of the pandemic, [b]before we started socially distant interactions at our local field.  [/b]She has two younger brothers, but truly needs true peer interaction, at least IMO.  She went from multiple meltdowns/day to typical mood variability; the difference was night and day.

I’d be inclined to let her go, and probably split things up as PP suggested (with one parent going back with her).  Mental health absolutely matters, and I think it’s important to consider that Fall won’t provide significant play opportunities for her.  [/quote]

DP. "Socially distant interactions at our local field" is a world apart from OP taking the DD all the way back home to attend a camp that will surely not be anywhere near as socially distanced as your child playing in a field with a few others. A field that's local to you. You're not uprooting the plans and going elsewhere for weeks to make the interactions happen. It's nice that your kid can do that, and too bad that OP's can't get to camp, but these are not "essential" things, mental health claims or not.

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And if I could have sent my eight year old back to camp, as OP proposes, I absolutely would.  If her camp opens this summer, she'll go back.  I sure as hell wouldn't continue to isolate a kid who is unhappy that way (recognizing that not all kids are).

Also, yes.  Social interaction is, for many kids, absolutely essential to healthy development.  You can stick your head in the sand all you want, or think that mental health isn't a thing, or whatever, but you are incorrect on that one.[/quote]

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