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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am curious as a mom of young kids, oldest 8. I never knew  month and all summer camps were so popular in the DC area. I grew up in Pennsylvania and no one went to camps more than 1 week a summer. Do any of these kids with high structured summers get any time to hang with friends in their neighborhood? Ride bikes, play games, mother's helpers?  This is our first summer here and we are struggling to find kids to play with for my 3 kids. Our neighborhood is a ghost town. It is kinda shocking. Where do the young kids go? [/quote]

All the kids in our neighborhood go to sleep away camp.  If you don't go, youd be the only kid around with no one to play with.  So since there's no one to play with, you go to camp.  [/quote]

That is one sad neighborhood. [/quote]

Why do you say this is sad?[/quote]

Because it isn't a neighborhood.  No kids playing, no families hanging out, BBQ, capture the flag, block parties, chasing ice cream truck, kids using their own minds and imagination to play games and hang out. So happy I still live in one of those. I guess it is a dying breed. [/quote]

The ice cream truck doesn't even come down our street, or any of our surrounding streets.  It goes straight to the neighborhood pool and sits there for extended periods of time.  We see it because we hang out at the pool daily.  I remember when the ice cream truck used to come up and down my street several times a day as a kid (in this area).[/quote]

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