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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never done it and I never will. That's not how I parent.[/quote]

Can you expand on this?  What are the reasons that you wold never send your child to sleep away camp?  Or that it reflects on what type of parent you are?[/quote]

Not the PP, and we have a few years until DD is old enough, but I'm torn about the idea of sleepaway camp.

I went to a private school growing up and was on scholarship unlike many of my wealthy classmates.  A number of them went to the same expensive camp in another state every summer for a month or more.  I remember my mother telling me it was because their parents didn't want them at home during the summer.  I know she probably told me that simply so I wouldn't feel badly that they couldn't afford to send me, but it stuck with me.

I have a feeling that we'll probably allow a short overnight camp stint at some point during her summers in addition to a week at her grandparents' house, but I love her too much and she'll be off to college in just a few short years that I wouldn't want to have her gone all summer while still a kid.[/quote]

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