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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sending a 10 yr old to camp for 3 weeks is very typical/normal, PP. you must be one if those parents who can't let go of you child. You need to learn how to do so.  It is key.

I went away to camp for 5 weeks a month after I turned 8.  I LOVED it.  It was in 1976.  Best thing my parents ever did for me.  It was an all girls camp in Brevard, NC. I went until the summer I was 17. That summer I went to Greece.  Now my daughter is at the same camp and also LOVING it.  I sent her for only 2 weeks and she is dying to stay longer.  I should have signed her up for 4 at least but there is next year.  
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I am sorry but it is not normal for a 10yr old to be away from their parents for weeks.  Why don't Jewish parents ever want to spend time with their kids?  Most of them around my way send their kids starting at 8yrs old and go for 4-8wks and occasionally the whole summer.  They count down when their kids leave and go on summer vacations without them  That is just sad.[/quote]

No, it is just a different perspective on parenting and childhood.  Read "Bringing Up Bebe" - she talks about french parents regularly sending their kids off to sleepaway camps at really young ages, like 5.  somehow these kids and their parents manage to have good family relationships and get through life.  [/quote]

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