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"beeswing" wrote: Her problem was that she needed quite a bit of sleep - she's not the kind of kid that can sit up all night and function the next day. The other girls were into nail polish and talking about boys and were wearing bras whereas she was still a little girl. They teased her a bit about that, and about the fact that she wanted to go to sleep rather than painting her toenails or something. Yeah, this stuff concerns me: the whole girls must be into boys and fingernail polish (though not necessarily in that order.) One of the reasons she's unhappy with her current school is that she dislikes this kind of "girl talk" -- and that leaves her excluded. I never got into that stuff as a teen, and frequently felt left out of the larger crowd. I found other kids (boys and girls) who had more important things to talk about than boys, makeup, clothes and movie stars. My little sister got into it briefly, but only because she felt like she had to; she lived in a VERY small town, and that's all there was. Neither of my daughters got into that very much; a brief spell for my younger daughter, but my older daughter always had friends of both genders, so there really wasn't much room for that kind of thing. It is VERY frustrating to see the peer pressure that goes into the mix to encourage girls to act "boy-crazy" and all that. And, sometimes, the Mom-pressu there are a surprising number of parents who think its cute and delightful. -- Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care |
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"starting to fill up around now"? You must either have a *lot* of summer programs available, or few parents interested in them Most of the programs we were interested in opened registration in March and filled up in April. I was thinking the same thing myself. The camp DD goes to sends it's next year registration out in Sept and it's filled up by Halloween. The camp DS is attending this summer was filled up by January. I think the only programs that aren't filled are those 'one week' tasting menu type of camp, but my kids aren't interested in attending camps that are so brief they can't really make friends. YMMV, of course. Marjorie |
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In article ,
Kevin Karplus wrote: On 2005-06-03, Robyn Kozierok wrote: You should find out if they usually do tend to fill up, and what their cancellation policies are (should you wish to hedge your bets and sign up for both for some of the weeks). Around here, it would be hard to get a kid into later weeks of a "good" summer program after summer begins. They are starting to fill up around now, with the reality of school ending in under 2 weeks finally hitting home with the parents. "starting to fill up around now"? You must either have a *lot* of summer programs available, or few parents interested in them Most of the programs we were interested in opened registration in March and filled up in April. The overnight camp my kids go to sends out registrations in September, for the next summer, and some units start filling up almost immediately! But the day camp programs around here don't even send out flyers until May. I don't know when the public school's afterschool/summer program opened registration, since we don't use it. Most of the other programs don't run all summer, so you need to cobble together a mish-mash of specialty day camps if you want to cover the whole summer. Some parents just hire nannies instead, especially if they have younger children, since full-day programs for preschool-age children are nearly non-existent. My kids and I were underwhelmed by the parks and rec program whose primary purpose is clearly daycare, so we consider ourselves lucky to have flexible enough schedules to go with the shorter days of the various and sundry day camps, but, as I said, they don't even start finalizing their plans and sending out flyers until May in most cases! --Robyn .. |
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In article ,
animzmirot wrote: I think the only programs that aren't filled are those 'one week' tasting menu type of camp, but my kids aren't interested in attending camps that are so brief they can't really make friends. YMMV, of course. These are the camps I was referring to when I said programs were starting to fill up. Many of them do run for several weeks in a row, but not for the full summer, and registration is on a week-by-week basis. One of the benefits of living in a smaller town is that no matter which camp my kids go to, they will already have friends there, even if they didn't pre-arrange with friends to go to the same camps. The kids they know from school, Hebrew school, soccer, Tae Kwon Do,... are the same kids who show up at the various camps. That is not to say that they know everyone, of course, but my kids have also found that it is easier/faster to make new friends that they meet in a camp centered around a common interest, as opposed to a longer-term, more general-interest camp. --Robyn .. |
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