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HealthCoach
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 Tue, Dec 02 2008, 3:24 pm
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The past 2 summers we went to the bungalow colony for 1/2 a summer. This year we are going for the whole summer. Now the ? is whether to still send my older 2 to sleep away camp for 1/2. My kids don't want to go as they have friends there and my dh thinks they should get to do what makes them happy while we save $4000. To me going to sleep away camp is something that I always planned on giving my children and it's an absolute. I was raised that way. I could scrimp and pinch on everything else, but I always wanted that for them. When they were younger I worried abt how we would afford, never considering not sending. I know they are happy in camp. I kind of told my dh that I agree not to send them, but I just can't get over the decision. I keep thinking that deep down it was a selfish decision. Perhaps I should insist on sending them.
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mummiedearest
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Tue, Dec 02 2008, 3:26 pm
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let them do what they want, as long as the summer isn't free-for-all. they need to agree to a regular schedule.
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Pickle Lady
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Tue, Dec 02 2008, 4:13 pm
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My parents could never afford sleep-over camp for my sister and I. I kind of wanted to go to sleep-ver camp but really it was fine when I didn't. If you kids don't want to go then its fine. As long as they enjoy their summer and do kid like things.
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dimples
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Tue, Dec 02 2008, 4:17 pm
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you're going to the bungalow, that will give them a summer expereince, and if they dont want to go to camp, you dont have to push them. however, mummiedearest is right, they must stick to a schedule or else you are asking for trouble...if your colony has a day camp, either enroll them there or have them work as counselors or even lifeguards. I did that, I only went to camp some years, and it was great!
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Fox
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Tue, Dec 02 2008, 4:20 pm
Sometimes our kids see things differently than we did as kids. Sometimes it's because of different personalities; sometimes because of different communities; sometimes because it's just a different generation.
As long as they have some structure, I wouldn't force the sleepaway camp issue. Two of my kids absolutely hated it, and two of my kids love it.
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