Reply to What to do when you get call from camp “I want to come home”

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "What to do when you get call from camp “I want to come home”"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Go get her.

It sounds like she has a history of homesickness. She’s may just too young. Or she may have an anxiety disorder.

I speak from experience. I was that camper who called my mom to come get me day 5 of a 7 day camp 1.5 hours from my house. I was an anxious kid. I would have been scarred had she not brought me home. That was third grade. By 8th grade I went back to the same camp and had a blast.

On the other hand my daughter loved camp in 5th grade but refused to go on an overnight Girl Scout trip around the same time. Little did we know that an anxiety disorder was developing (this is around the age it exposes itself).  By 7th grade she wanted nothing to do with going away to camp or many social things that I won’t go in to and after extensive testing, was formally diagnosed with social anxiety disorder.

Every kid is different. It’s important to talk to her about why she wanted to come home AFTER you’ve picked her up and brought her home and she has had a chance to feel comfortable again.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics