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[quote=Anonymous]Your DH is right, you're planning too much. Find a couple of camps that your kids will enjoy and logistically work for you. There's not need to stress yourself out for 10 straight weeks. The world will keep spinning if they're slightly bored or they're not receiving top level academic enrichment all summer long.

I think that's a difference. For most of us, summer camp is about childcare and fun. You and other foreign-born parents that you're familiar with view it instead as an opportunity to [i]invest[/i] in your child(ren). And you can't understand why the rest of us aren't pouring the same money and resources into enriching our children. But that's a narrow understanding of enrichment. There's plenty of valuable lessons to be learned in a regular summer camp a kid attends for more than a week.

And I suspect you see running yourself ragged taking your children here there and everywhere, no matter how inconvenient, as a marker of a parent who truly loves their child(ren) and wants the very absolute best for them. Meanwhile, most of us are asking "why are you needlessly torturing yourself? The camp down the street is lots of fun and easy to do pick up and drop off." Less time in the car, less stress for parents, more time with the kids, everyone is happier.

My kid personally loves the two camps he attends. One is a typical summer camp that rents space from the church at the entrance to our neighborhood. Nearly all our neighbors do at least a few weeks of camp there. The kids love it. The theme changes each week so its not the exact same thing, and because so many kids both in and out of the neighborhood attend multiple weeks, they make lots of friends and can't wait to see each other. And we can't beat the convenience of being able to walk to camp! The other camp is at a skating rink; my kids loves getting to be on the ice for hours a day (and it does improve his hockey skills), especially with the older boys. He doesn't care that it's the same pretty much every day, every week--he'd happily spend the whole summer there if we let him.[/quote]

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