Because I spend way too much time analyzing my current work and childhood camp experiences to death (and am too cheap for a paid account
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I was forced to go to day camp one summer in roughly fourth or fifth grade. I didn't want to go to day camp. My mother made me go anyway. I hated it with a serious passion. She made me go the whole week or two weeks or whatever it was despite my regular complaints about it. I've also been on Shabbatons (weekend camp trips, usually held during the school year) and hated them, too. Why everyone seems to think I will somehow magically like it if I go to enough of these, I don't know.
Even now, when I go on grownup-ish retreat-like things voluntarily, I find them Quite Stressful.
Oh! And fiddledragon's comment reminds me that one summer I did an art camp where we built complicated Seussian houses out of cardboard boxes, masking tape, and white glue. Can't remember if it was homeschool-group affiliated, might've been connected with the art museum somehow. A week long, maybe? And there were a couple workshops, possibly actually a camp, at the Rochester Museum and Science Center, too, but seriously long ago.
Re SLEEPAWAY CAMP (c), do you remember which one? It probably has a reputation around here, and I'd be curious.
At the camp at which I work (where I didn't attend, and therefore not what the poll was asking), significant infractions by children are penalized by missing trips off-grounds, followed by expulsion if it continues or is bad enough. The main infraction that comes up is possession of cell phones, which are forbidden to campers.
I went to camp before people had cell phones, though there were portable video game devices (like Game Boys) which were prohibited. The rule for contraband was simple: they confiscated it until the end of camp, but I don't think they did much else. (But my memory for these things is so unreliable: I don't think I ever got in trouble.)
I need to correct a typo my original post: I meant to write "the GROUNDS were large enough to sustain exploring, at least when one was small." I wonder what it means, neurologically, that most of my unconscious writing errors come in the form of pretty different but phonetically nearby words.
1) I never went to camp because: b) There was always a family member home to watch me (my mom, also my older brother to a small extent)
2) What kinds of activities did you do over the summer? Play! Hours doing stuff outdoors with my younger brother and kids from my block, riding my bike, walking along the little creek a few blocks from our house, ball games in the street, digging in the yard...
Stay inside! Hours watching TV and reading.
Swim! We went to the township pool at least three days a week, maybe more, for 3-4 hours at a time. I also took swimming lessons in the mornings, though I never got very good.
Around sixth grade I started taking summer school classes ("Chemistry Fun" twice, and video production once), and for one or two years I was a teacher's assistant in that Chemistry Fun class.
Then in 11th grade I was able to get a summer job at The Franklin Institute since I was already a volunteer there.
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Even now, when I go on grownup-ish retreat-like things voluntarily, I find them Quite Stressful.
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At the camp at which I work (where I didn't attend, and therefore not what the poll was asking), significant infractions by children are penalized by missing trips off-grounds, followed by expulsion if it continues or is bad enough. The main infraction that comes up is possession of cell phones, which are forbidden to campers.
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I went to camp before people had cell phones, though there were portable video game devices (like Game Boys) which were prohibited. The rule for contraband was simple: they confiscated it until the end of camp, but I don't think they did much else. (But my memory for these things is so unreliable: I don't think I ever got in trouble.)
I need to correct a typo my original post: I meant to write "the GROUNDS were large enough to sustain exploring, at least when one was small." I wonder what it means, neurologically, that most of my unconscious writing errors come in the form of pretty different but phonetically nearby words.
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1) I never went to camp because:
b) There was always a family member home to watch me (my mom, also my older brother to a small extent)
2) What kinds of activities did you do over the summer?
Play! Hours doing stuff outdoors with my younger brother and kids from my block, riding my bike, walking along the little creek a few blocks from our house, ball games in the street, digging in the yard...
Stay inside! Hours watching TV and reading.
Swim! We went to the township pool at least three days a week, maybe more, for 3-4 hours at a time. I also took swimming lessons in the mornings, though I never got very good.
Around sixth grade I started taking summer school classes ("Chemistry Fun" twice, and video production once), and for one or two years I was a teacher's assistant in that Chemistry Fun class.
Then in 11th grade I was able to get a summer job at The Franklin Institute since I was already a volunteer there.
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