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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD returned to her camp this summer.  Last year she had a great time.  This year it was a rough start.  The first 10 days were hard.  Letters to home were full of sadness and longing to come home.

We're now 6 weeks in and the letters are starting to come saying she's sad that camp is ending soon and please make sure I sign her up for next summer.

When the first wave of please come get me letters came, my instinct was to go get her.  As a parent, we all want our kids to be happy.  My kid was unhappy and I have the power to fix that.

But I talked to parents whose kids have been at camp for many years, the director called me every day to give me updates, and ultimately, my daughter worked it out within herself.  That's the growth that should be happening at camp.  I'm proud of both of us--to her for allowing other people than mom and dad to help her and for her resolving her own issues and to me for not running up there at the first sign of unhappiness.[/quote]

6 weeks in?  You send her away all summer?  That is awful  [/quote]

Yes, sleepaway camp is pretty much like exiling your child. We do it just to make our kids feel "sent away." 
 :roll:

I went to 8-week sleepaway camp starting at age 7 and loved it, as did my brother and the other 200 kids there.

I still remember running to the camp bus (in a mall parking lot on Long Island) to hug camp friends who I hadn't seen all year (different schools, no cell phones or email in the 70s).

Whatever you think of OP's situation (I think the kid is having new kid adjustment problems and feeling sorry for herself and he should ask the camp director to discretely find a way to help her find her niche), camp isn't some awful exile. For many kids, camp is paradise. 
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With parents that don't want to spend time with their kids over the summer, I bet it is. [/quote]

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