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Random - did you go to summer camp as a kid?
I didn't, but always wanted to.
Re: Random - did you go to summer camp as a kid?
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to daycamp, yes... overnight camp, no. I never returned to a camp from summer to summer though (tried a month once in 4th grade, then was a CIT in middle school/ high school at points).
I went to girl scout camp for 2 week when I was maybe 11-12ish. I hated it and cried every night.
When I was in college, I worked at a summer camp.
I did not go to camp until the summer after my senior year in high school. I attended a vocal camp for two weeks in Princeton, NJ. It was a life changing experience.
Other than that, I had no desire to go away to camp... the whole "camp" thing was a turn off even when I was younger. I'm an indoorsy kind of person.
I'm going to be overprotective.
But not because I'm Asian. It's because I think there are child molestors everywhere.
So DS will NOT be attending summer camp as early/young as I did, if at all.
Ginger's post reminded me too. I did go to a Summer Leadership Camp in between my junior and senior year of high school. I LOVED it.
I did always want to go to camp-camp though when I was young. Like the everyone sits around the fire and roast marshmallows camp.
Oh yeah, no, I don't do camp camp. I like flushable toilets, hot water, and clean sheets
Asian overprotection is a whole 'nother beast. I was not allowed to go to sleepovers, school dances, classmates' birthday parties or summer parties...basically my life consisted of school, chores, and family time. It was an incredibly stifling way to grow up.
My mom's reasoning for not letting me socialize with people was, "It's not that I don't trust you, I don't trust everyone else."
I had a friend whose mom was Vietnamese and whose dad was older and Italian. She could never do anything. I remember having to pick her up down the street from her house when we were 17 and going to Riverside on a Friday night, because she had to tell her parents that my parents were going with us. (As in walking around with us.) And we both had licenses at that point. Though she wasn't allowed to go anywhere on her own, until college. Anyway, the point of that (very long) digression is that her mom had the same exact reasoning for things.
I didn't go to camp. I'm not outdoorsy, and I'm not a joiner, so yeah. Probably for the best. I did work at a girl scout day camp for two weeks one summer, and it totally made me realize that I had made the right decision in skipping out.
I didn't count my week long field hockey overnight camp I went to in high school (3 years I think). That was my only real overnights.
From being a counselor, I don't know if I would ever let my child do the overnights at camp-- we were so irresponsible.
DH's family ran a camp for underprivileged kids throughout his childhood so he spent all summer, every summer at camp. I've never talked to him about what he pictures our kids doing in the summer!
That's very cool! Did they have a large property somewhere? What made them start it?
It was actually started by a former Maine governor who lost a daughter... they ran it from the time he was young until through college I believe. It's a pretty neat camp on a lake and it offers a lot of opportunities for those kids. It's still up and running, just under different leadership.
Huh.
My parents were total opposite.
Here! We got you potty trained! Time to raise yourselves! Have fun!
Yeah, pretty much how I was raised. Raised outside of Orlando, FL. My brother & sister are 9 and 11 yrs older than me, so they weren't really around and the parents were at work. I usually walked home from elementary school to an empty house. It was good though, got to do whatever I wanted, and I feel I am more independant now because of it.
I went to the city summer program during my preteen years. It was during the day, so no overnights. The Florida heat was harsh, but we would play outside, and do crafts inside when it was too hot. We would do field trips at least once a week. I loved it!
For 5-7 grades, each year I went to a church camp that was a week long staying in a cabin. Also over the summer in 4th grade I went to a day camp at the local YMCA.
Both were eh.
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