Goodness, she is way too young!
When she cries. Ask her if she wants to write a letter, stamp it and mail it. Easy to distract at that age.
She can camp out in the living room, etc...

10 yo just finished a first week at sleepaway camp. (I was also volunteering there--not directly involved with my kid, but on-site, so I had a good opportunity to get to know the cast of characters and the setup and procedures. If you have the time and a camp that allows or encourages this, I highly recommend it.)

This kid definitely would not have been ready for sleepaway camp, with or without a buddy, at 7. We as parents also would not have been comfortable with it.

My 8 year old wouldn’t be ready yet. Most her friends wouldn’t be either; but I can think of one or two who would probably love it.

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Anonymous wrote:You trust strangers with constant access to your vulnerable child?

Do your kids go to school? Activities?

Not the same. Your kid is off on their own 24 hours a day with no real way to contact anyone outside of camp.

The camp will contact you if there is an issue, and you can contact them as well. You can also go and get your kid if you need to for whatever reason. It’s your kid. The camp isn’t kidnapping them.

Non-responsive. The potential risk here includes people employed at the camp. Do you think they are going to call you and tell you about the inappropriate things they did to your child? Or are they going to tell your child not to talk about it?

OMG are you for real and that paranoid? Hundreds of thousands of kids do sleepaway every summer and it is fine.

Sleepaway is definitely not for you if that is how you think.

I am still waiting to see how the Texas incident could've been prevent they were giving tons of warnings and they did nothing because they didn't want to wake them up? S

Maybe the taxpayers of that region named "Flood Alley" could have demanded that their elected officials actually shell out $ for a flood warning system and implement proper safety standards...given that they had to evacuate campers just 8 years ago due to flash floods.

Earliest id allow sleepaway camp is at 9.

Anonymous wrote:I do not understand sending a child to sleep away camp. 7 is too young.

I agree. My daughter is 9 and I would not send her for a camp at that age either. 7 is way too young.

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Anonymous wrote:You trust strangers with constant access to your vulnerable child?

Do your kids go to school? Activities?

Not the same. Your kid is off on their own 24 hours a day with no real way to contact anyone outside of camp.

The camp will contact you if there is an issue, and you can contact them as well. You can also go and get your kid if you need to for whatever reason. It’s your kid. The camp isn’t kidnapping them.

Non-responsive. The potential risk here includes people employed at the camp. Do you think they are going to call you and tell you about the inappropriate things they did to your child? Or are they going to tell your child not to talk about it?

OMG are you for real and that paranoid? Hundreds of thousands of kids do sleepaway every summer and it is fine.

Sleepaway is definitely not for you if that is how you think.

I am still waiting to see how the Texas incident could've been prevent they were giving tons of warnings and they did nothing because they didn't want to wake them up? S

Texas incident is a horrible tragedy. I would never send an ES kid flying to other states to attend a sleepaway camp, not to mention that their camp is right at flooding zones. I feel a lot better within 1-3 driving zones, in case if anything happen, I can immediately hop into my car to drive to the camp.

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Anonymous wrote:You trust strangers with constant access to your vulnerable child?

Do your kids go to school? Activities?

Not the same. Your kid is off on their own 24 hours a day with no real way to contact anyone outside of camp.

The camp will contact you if there is an issue, and you can contact them as well. You can also go and get your kid if you need to for whatever reason. It’s your kid. The camp isn’t kidnapping them.

Non-responsive. The potential risk here includes people employed at the camp. Do you think they are going to call you and tell you about the inappropriate things they did to your child? Or are they going to tell your child not to talk about it?

OMG are you for real and that paranoid? Hundreds of thousands of kids do sleepaway every summer and it is fine.

Sleepaway is definitely not for you if that is how you think.

I am still waiting to see how the Texas incident could've been prevent they were giving tons of warnings and they did nothing because they didn't want to wake them up? S

I don't know if I can trust any sleepaway camp. Day camp is fine, but sending your kids away for a week or even longer is not for free. The consolers are teens so they might be nice but they don't know what do if something happens....