[Amelia]

Those sorts of parental attitudes aren't confined just to camps...I'm guessing that anyone who works with children in any capacity is seeing more & more of them.

[y6162]

Heliocopter parents = liberals

[Kimmers]

Yup, I worked as a school nurse and these parents think their kid is the only one in the world....these are helicopter parents when their kid is little and when they get into middle school HS the kids seem to be left to flounder on their own...they are not doing their children any favors.... I sometimes think the school nurse was the only place of comfort these kids had....

My favorite school story is a mom calling in with a complaint that one of the words used on the spelling list was fat. “We do not use the word fat in our home, we say fluffy instead.” I guess both mom and child were “fluffy”

[vietvet67]

Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda. - Allen Sherman

Dates self without carbon..

[STONEWALLS]

...just wait til they get in college...it gets even worse with some kids/parents....they take the attitude “I am the customer, you must please me...so what if I took cell phone calls in class and turned my paper in a week late...I paid for the course and deserve a good grade”

[itsthejourney]

In all the years mine have gone to sleep away camps, I’ve never once had to call the camp staff. Perhaps that’s because not one camp has ever banned cell phones and I expect a short “I’m still alive” phone call from my little campers each night.

That said, thanks for the chuckle, lol.

[manic4organic]

Both my daughters have gone to Christian camps for one or two weeks. There is no communication with them by design. They’ve never been homesick. In fact, they wanted to stay longer in some instances.

[Polynikes]

“They’ll give their child two cellphones, so if they get caught with the first one, ‘Just give it up and you’ll have the second one to talk to me,’ “ he said. “That’s widespread, not isolated. I call it fading parental morality. What they’re doing is entering into delinquent behaviors with their children. And what kind of statement is that to a child?”...

The camps should invest in a cellphone jammer and have several payphones which the kids can use with the appropriate change. Also a novel idea would be for the kids to actually write letters home.

[asksimon]

Personally having a kid in camp is a reprieve from doing hard time everyday. 1 week a year to ditch the kids.
My kids get a “don’t call me unless your dying” lecture.

However, parental authority trumps teenage counsellors anyday. We are called to honor our father and mother that it will go well with us.

If my dear little hoodlums are required to call daily, then the camp has to honor that.

[Sgt Joe Friday 714]

I’m not a fan of sleepaway camps. Day camps are better for me. I like the ideas of my kids being closeby at night. I’m old fashioned.

[wintertime]

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