I mean, I don't know about that for me. I think part of it is being annoyed by it, and then appreciating them after they leave. I miss my college kid, but when she's home it's still annoying to deal with the mess and drama. We definitely have a better relationship now that she lives somewhere else most of the time, and I think that's okay.
I mean, I don't know about that for me. I think part of it is being annoyed by it, and then appreciating them after they leave. I miss my college kid, but when she's home it's still annoying to deal with the mess and drama. We definitely have a better relationship now that she lives somewhere else most of the time, and I think that's okay.
That makes me feel better. I was thinking about signing my nine-year-old up for sleep away summer camp less so he can have a great experience and more so we can have a couple days of quiet and that seemed incorrect.
Send your son to sleep away camp without guilt. It's a good learning experience about independence for both kids and parents. A week of freedom (No finding a babysitter! Wine and cheese for dinner!) is amazing after managing a family. My youngest is now a high school senior, so I'm both excited and nervous about what that means for me. Glad I got some glimpses of it over the years.
DO IT! My daughter has gone to sleep away camp for a week the last two summers (the summers of age 9 and 10) and is looking forward to it again this year. I'd let her go longer if it wasn't so flipping expensive. I told my husband this past summer that the week she was gone I wasn't going to do any organized dinners--we could scrounge our own, make our own, order out together or alone, eat cheez-its from the box. Did some of all those things and it was GLORIOUS.
This thread has convinced me to do it! His brother was a year older than he was when he first did it but younger siblings are emotionally older than the firstborns (I just made that up)
Yes! Do it! It's so great for everyone. My kids both went for years and loved it so much they became counselors (gone all summer and making money, win win!). It's like a little step of independence that's really helpful for them. My daughter went to a camp that was held in a college dorm, so she felt like she had a taste of college as well in middle and high school. We missed them more than they missed us, which was also good for everyone, haha.
Send him! My mom started sending my sister and I the summer after third grade, and my kid wasnтАЩt ready then, which was good bc it was the first COVID summer, but she started trying it the next summer, and it took some trying to find the right fit, but now everyone is excited for her to be gone for a month next summer.
I mean, I don't know about that for me. I think part of it is being annoyed by it, and then appreciating them after they leave. I miss my college kid, but when she's home it's still annoying to deal with the mess and drama. We definitely have a better relationship now that she lives somewhere else most of the time, and I think that's okay.
That makes me feel better. I was thinking about signing my nine-year-old up for sleep away summer camp less so he can have a great experience and more so we can have a couple days of quiet and that seemed incorrect.
Send your son to sleep away camp without guilt. It's a good learning experience about independence for both kids and parents. A week of freedom (No finding a babysitter! Wine and cheese for dinner!) is amazing after managing a family. My youngest is now a high school senior, so I'm both excited and nervous about what that means for me. Glad I got some glimpses of it over the years.
DO IT! My daughter has gone to sleep away camp for a week the last two summers (the summers of age 9 and 10) and is looking forward to it again this year. I'd let her go longer if it wasn't so flipping expensive. I told my husband this past summer that the week she was gone I wasn't going to do any organized dinners--we could scrounge our own, make our own, order out together or alone, eat cheez-its from the box. Did some of all those things and it was GLORIOUS.
This thread has convinced me to do it! His brother was a year older than he was when he first did it but younger siblings are emotionally older than the firstborns (I just made that up)
Yes! Do it! It's so great for everyone. My kids both went for years and loved it so much they became counselors (gone all summer and making money, win win!). It's like a little step of independence that's really helpful for them. My daughter went to a camp that was held in a college dorm, so she felt like she had a taste of college as well in middle and high school. We missed them more than they missed us, which was also good for everyone, haha.
Send him! My mom started sending my sister and I the summer after third grade, and my kid wasnтАЩt ready then, which was good bc it was the first COVID summer, but she started trying it the next summer, and it took some trying to find the right fit, but now everyone is excited for her to be gone for a month next summer.