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amother
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 Mon, Jul 01 2024, 12:20 am
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What age do you start sending them and if they don’t want to go do you still send them and why?
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theoneandonly
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 12:24 am
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Why on earth would you send a kid who doesn't want to go?
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amother
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 12:27 am
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amother
DarkRed
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 12:43 am
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No I would never send a child to camp if they dont want to go. My child stayed home even if she got some stupid comments that it would ruin her shidduchim.
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amother
Goldenrod
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 12:58 am
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No. Why would you do that?
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amother
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 1:08 am
| amother DarkRed wrote: | | No I would never send a child to camp if they dont want to go. My child stayed home even if she got some stupid comments that it would ruin her shidduchim. |
Why would it ruin someone’s shidduchim if they don’t go to sleep away camp?
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amother
DarkRed
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 1:30 am
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They claim healthy kids go to camp. I guess there will be another unhealthy kid that will gladly marry her.
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amother
Orchid
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 1:55 am
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ofc not, my father was sent to camp when he was a kid so his parents could travel europe, and he didnt want to go and he cried every day.
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shabbatiscoming
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 5:45 am
| amother OP wrote: | | What age do you start sending them and if they don’t want to go do you still send them and why? |
Op, why would you force a kid to go if they didnt want to?
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amother
Catmint
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 6:16 am
It's not always a bad idea to push. It depends on the circumstances.
I pushed one of my kids to go to camp.
He has HFA, and struggles socially. We tried a very short program first, then, after a couple of years, his rebbeim encouraged something longer.
He gained so much from the experience. He's much more comfortable with himself and his peers, and willing to spread his wings.
This year, BH, he himself requested a full summer.
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salt
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 6:20 am
I don't think I'd push them to go to sleepaway camp, but other things I 'force' or bribe them to do if I think they should, or in the end it will be good for them, as an example - going to have lunch with grandparents when invited, I would force, even if they don't want, because I know and they know that they should, and they won't suffer terribly!
Obviously each case is individual.
My DD had a 2 day sleepaway with school which was optional - she didn't really want to go as only 8 girls from her class were going, but I really pushed her, as she's off school at the moment and is pretty bored, and I guessed she'd like it in the end.
But a several week long sleepaway camp, I don't think I'd force.
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Simple1
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 6:21 am
| amother DarkRed wrote: | | They claim healthy kids go to camp. I guess there will be another unhealthy kid that will gladly marry her. |
I never heard this about sleep away camp. Maybe about day camp, and teens who aren’t going to camp should have some type of job so they aren’t idling away. Or in the case of small kids who opt out of day camp, they would need a not-working parent parent keeping them occupied.
ETA not saying you can’t be healthy if you do nothing. Different kids have individual needs.
Last edited by Simple1 on Mon, Jul 01 2024, 6:23 am; edited 1 time in total
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Ruchel
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 6:22 am
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How odd. No. That said they may regret.
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amother
Burlywood
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 6:29 am
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For special needs, sometimes.
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amother
Alyssum
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 6:33 am
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Why such string reactions? You really have to know your child and have major intuition. Sometimes a child is nervous and worried but you know it would be a wonderful thing for them and that they would love it in the end, sometimes even if they vry the first couple days it could be a great thing for them. I think it's case sensitive. Obviously share with the child of it really really doesn't work they are not stuck there. Sometimes a child needs to be encouraged to try. Even things they oppose to at the beginning, again, it depends on the case, but healthy and normal.
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amother
Snowflake
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 7:34 am
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When I was 10 and 11 I was sent to camp even though I didn’t want to because there was no full time daycamp for those ages, my parents worked full time, and I wasn’t old enough to stay home alone or work. Once I was 12 and could get a backyard camp job till 3 and then stay home alone (or go to a friends) till my mother got home at 5 I was allowed to stay home.
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amother
Amaryllis
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Mon, Jul 01 2024, 7:41 am
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Depends why they don’t want to go. It also depends if there is a safe healthy option for them at home.
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