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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD cries every day that she misses her older bro having fun at sleepaway camp. She wants to go there next summer for a week. They won't be at the same cabins due to age and gender. If I let her go, I would want to find a friend to go with her. She is a bit shy. The camp has lake, pool and rope etc.. Before other parents may call me crazy, what is the chance that you will let you 7 year old daughter to go to a sleepaway camp with a buddy for a week if I call you. DD will turn 7 next summer in May, so her friends will be 7 next summer. DH says no, but we think we may be okay if she has a friend to go with her. [/quote]

At what age did you send your son to this camp for the first time?

Kids can go and have a lot of fun at 7 years old, even if they don't know anyone else in their bunk. It just depends on the kid. Almost all of the camps we looked at for our daughter had a checklist of things they should be able to do independently before they are ready for camp (showering, dressing themselves, making their own bed, stuff like that). I would ask your camp for their advice and then spend the next year working on those skills, so your daughter feels prepared to go.

Most camps we looked at also had a "camper care" person whose job it was to reach out to the parents in advance and talk about their kid. We talked about our daughter's anxiety and what helps to calm her down, about the questions she had about camp, and about her food allergies. We talked extensively with our daughter about what camp would be like - the fun activities and the more mundane things. By the time we actually dropped her off, she felt so ready that she barely said goodbye to us before skipping away with the counselor she had just met. She went at 7 (rising 2nd grade), but most of the girls at the camp start at 8 (as rising 3rd graders), because their parents didn't feel they were ready at 7. Again, it depends on the kid.[/quote]

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