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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 3 kids not only come in our room, they sleep in and out of our bed.

I had a friend who would lock her bedroom door at night. She would tell me how her kids would cry and fall asleep by her bedroom door. I thought that was pretty cruel. She also works long hours.[/quote]

That's SO sad.  It almost made me tear  up, and I"m really not even the type for that.  We don't generally let our dog upstairs in the house (he's a 110 lb Rottie, nobody needs that much fur, slobber and energy up there...) but when he wasn't feeling well and came upstairs whining, I let him sleep next to me on a bean bag.  I can't imagine not letting my kids in![/quote]

I think she was just desperate for sleep and the kids were desperate for attention and affection. If you need sleep to be safe, it sucks but I would make sure everyone knew they needed to respect my sleep time.

I had a job that involved lots of driving in mountains with kids but the directors never gave us more than 8h of "off" time-for anything, including food and sleep, and only 4 days off the entire summer so I would end up spending 10-15min chatting so they knew I adored them (it's true and still do-we're still in touch) before kicking them off of my bed. It was very dangerous because they never hired enough people to rotate drivers so someone was well-rested.

PLEASE ask your camps about this. They'll probably lie to you but they are more likely to have better policies if they know people are asking about the number of drivers, their qualifications and thinking about those things. This was an extremely expensive NE camp and still happened fairly recently that had/has zero excuses for that policy if they charge $12k base (probably more now) per child for the summer. It certainly isn't going to the staff. 
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I was reprimanded and threatened when I pointed out that another staff member had started to fall asleep at the wheel and they needed to either rotate more staff on or give us more time off just to rest to be safe on the road. Four staff cannot run trips for ~300 children when they return at 11p-2a and need to be on the road again at 6-7a the following day. There isn't even signal for GPS so the second person has to use a paper map/instructions so they can't sleep in the vehicle either. I was absolutely terrified of getting in an accident.

I also found out later that the male staff were paid anywhere from 1.5-2x more for the same positions even if they had less experience and fewer qualifications. It was actually a male staff member who confronted the directors about this. Everyone who knew or was suspected to know was fired or not asked back the following season.
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