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What I personally don't understand is why parents feel the need to send their children on overnight camps. My parents never forced this on me. I asked to go to a violin camp at 14 - it went beautifully, and I grew up to be a functioning adult. My husband, on the other hand, was sent to overnight camps regularly with his brothers when he was little and wrote intense letters to his Mother every time, describing how hungry and tired he was. To this day, he remembers how awful he felt, and is still bitter no one did anything about it.

Just because others are doing it, it doesn't mean it's right for your or your child.
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My parents didn't force it on anyone. My parents offered each of us, 4 in total, the chance to go if we wanted to. I was the only one who went, loved it, and kept going. My older brothers really liked some of the advanced academic academies that they went to that were over night.

The OPs daughter wanted to go. She was excited about attending when they made the decision and it sounds like she was fine, if not interested, with going all the way up to going. The OP did not force her daughter to go.

I wanted to go and wanted to go for a longer period of time then my parents let me go. I would have been a full summer camper if I could have been. We will offer the chance to go to our son when he is a bit older. we'll probably start with Cub Scout camp and see how it goes. It will be his choice but I hope he likes it as much as I did. Lots of fond memories from overnight camp.

Your DHs parents did not make a good choice for him. I wonder if that was a time that they went on a special vacation themselves. But it was not a good choice.

I suspect that the young lady in this case will not go to overnight camp next year.[/quote]

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