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Anonymous wrote:Once when driving into a town on vacation we saw a sign for evening vacation bible school. Signed our 5 year old up and he LOVED it! And we were able to go to dinner and enjoy our evenings. He came home exhausted too.

Evening bible school? That sounds… awful

Also, exhausted from… bible school? What exactly were they doing there?

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Anonymous wrote:No, but I don't find my kids hard to manage. I'm also a SAHM, so its not a shock to me for them to be around me all day on vacation.

Since you're a SAHM, who not give yourself and the kids a vacation sometime, for a new experience?

Camp is not a vacation experience

There are absolutely camps that could be considered a vacation experience, depending on where you live: sailing, surfing, skiing, historical camps like at Plimouth Plantation, etc.

Yes I have a super-social 5 year old only-child and she loves going to kids club on vacations. She would go crazy not having other kids to play with.

We travel for 3 weeks in August and she chooses to go to kids club most mornings. Then we spend the rest of the day together. I work for about half of the trip just while she's in kids club and then take the second half off entirely. It lets us get away for a longer period of time.

We also do long weekend trips that are just our family.

Brilliant. Now you can bang DH uninterrupted for 3 hours.

Every summer for language immersion. We rent an airbnb and telework and put kids in local camps. In those two months, they learn so much more than they do in their immersion school. But we don't consider this a vacation, since we work full-time.

When I was little, it was a thing. Parents would park their kids there and go enjoy their vacation. My parents never did that, and I don't either with my kids. We actually like to do stuff together.

Anonymous wrote:My son asked to go to camp for a couple of hours during our 1 week cruise. We obliged. Though I’m not sure I’d allow it in the future after reading some creepy articles after the fact.

Why do you think Disney cruises are so popular?

My son asked to go to camp for a couple of hours during our 1 week cruise. We obliged. Though I’m not sure I’d allow it in the future after reading some creepy articles after the fact.

Anonymous wrote:Once when driving into a town on vacation we saw a sign for evening vacation bible school. Signed our 5 year old up and he LOVED it! And we were able to go to dinner and enjoy our evenings. He came home exhausted too.

Evening bible school? That sounds… awful

Once when driving into a town on vacation we saw a sign for evening vacation bible school. Signed our 5 year old up and he LOVED it! And we were able to go to dinner and enjoy our evenings. He came home exhausted too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, but I don't find my kids hard to manage. I'm also a SAHM, so its not a shock to me for them to be around me all day on vacation.

Since you're a SAHM, who not give yourself and the kids a vacation sometime, for a new experience?

Maybe the kids go to sleep away camp while the adults go away or not?
OP asked when parents enroll children in summer camp at vacation destination - and I’m assuming not a resort day camp.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents used to send me to various day camps at vacation destinations. It’s horrible being the outsider in a group, while on vacation!

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Depends on your child.

My DD has never met a stranger and loves meeting new kids.

+1. I have an only child who is extremely social and loved being in a 1/2 day camp while we vacationed in Maine. Gave me time to exercise in the morning, go out to lunch & shop around & then was ready to pick her up by 1:30pm. Especially helpful on rainy days. Otherwise, it would have been her stuck with her parents the entire time.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents used to send me to various day camps at vacation destinations. It’s horrible being the outsider in a group, while on vacation!

Pay attention to this post!

Depends on your child.

My DD has never met a stranger and loves meeting new kids.

Obx surf camp. Fantastic.

Only when my dh's parents had a vacation home and we would spend a few weeks there. Otherwise, no