Last year, we sent our then 11-year-old to sleepaway camp for two weeks, where she did all the things kids do at sleepaway camp -- she paddle-surfed in the lake, slept in an open-air cabin, competed in color wars, roasted marshmallows in bonfires after dinner, complained about that dinner (and lunch and breakfast), and wrote her parents letters during her free time summarizing it all. Wow, were those some good letters! Though, as anyone who sends their kid away to camp knows, it doesn't take much for a letter to qualify as "good" -- regardless of the contents, it's almost enough to just know that they are merely surviving without us, and have the wherewithal to put a pen to paper.
One Thing We Did Right
One Thing We Did Right
One Thing We Did Right
Last year, we sent our then 11-year-old to sleepaway camp for two weeks, where she did all the things kids do at sleepaway camp -- she paddle-surfed in the lake, slept in an open-air cabin, competed in color wars, roasted marshmallows in bonfires after dinner, complained about that dinner (and lunch and breakfast), and wrote her parents letters during her free time summarizing it all. Wow, were those some good letters! Though, as anyone who sends their kid away to camp knows, it doesn't take much for a letter to qualify as "good" -- regardless of the contents, it's almost enough to just know that they are merely surviving without us, and have the wherewithal to put a pen to paper.