Anonymous wrote:My kids go 2 weeks, for $750 which is close to the same as regular camp plus groceries for 2 weeks. In HS they do 4 week, 2 weeks camp, 2 weeks volunteering.

It is an amazing experience.

I think it would hard to adjust to college if that was the 1st time you spent time away from your family.

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Anonymous wrote:The point of sleep away for us was to prepare our child for college. I never went anywhere before college and the transition was impossible. I didn't want my kid to have to face a strange new environment and not have the skills to manage. Sent her to gymnastics camp for two weeks with a team at age 8 until 11. Sent her to China for a month at 13. She's also done years of CTY which was as close to college as you can get. She is now far away at college and loving it. She has her own apartment and just interviewed for a summer internship.

So you think the only kids that can transition into college at 18 need to be shipped off to camp at 8yrs old like yours?

Newsflash: Most kids have never been anywhere on their own before college. THAT is what makes college so fun and life changing. Sorry it was "impossible" for you but a few weeks of rich kids camp doesn't prep kids for college. All it does is keep them away from their parents with structured activities scheduled by barking counselors that can't wait to make it thru each day so they can party and bang each other after hours. It doesn't teach them to balance a budget, cook food, shop, organize, clean, balance social/studies, etc... But great attempt at rationalizing the need for camp.

Newsflash: It actually is what makes college so difficult, stressful and overwhelming for many, many freshman.

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Anonymous wrote:The point of sleep away for us was to prepare our child for college. I never went anywhere before college and the transition was impossible. I didn't want my kid to have to face a strange new environment and not have the skills to manage. Sent her to gymnastics camp for two weeks with a team at age 8 until 11. Sent her to China for a month at 13. She's also done years of CTY which was as close to college as you can get. She is now far away at college and loving it. She has her own apartment and just interviewed for a summer internship.

So you think the only kids that can transition into college at 18 need to be shipped off to camp at 8yrs old like yours?

Newsflash: Most kids have never been anywhere on their own before college. THAT is what makes college so fun and life changing. Sorry it was "impossible" for you but a few weeks of rich kids camp doesn't prep kids for college. All it does is keep them away from their parents with structured activities scheduled by barking counselors that can't wait to make it thru each day so they can party and bang each other after hours. It doesn't teach them to balance a budget, cook food, shop, organize, clean, balance social/studies, etc... But great attempt at rationalizing the need for camp.

Anonymous wrote:Poll. Who here did NOT go to sleep away camp when they were young and did just fine going away to college? Me, for one. Gosh, people, kids these days are so coddled. This from a parent who IS sending my son (9) to a 2 week sleep away camp for the first time this summer because I think he will have a blast, not because I think he will have a breakdown when he goes away to college if he had never been away from home before!