This week’s article in The Cut, “How Camp Visiting Day Became a Competition for Moms” (especially with the tag line “I Swear, They’re Flying in Nobu Sushi for Their Kids’), struck a nerve – especially among those of us who live and breathe the camp world year-round.
There’s something quietly beautiful about the way sleepaway camp keeps the art of letter writing alive.
There’s that saying – “The days are long, but the years are short” – and wow, does it hit differently this summer.
Sending your child off to sleepaway camp for the first time is a major milestone – for them and for you.
If I could go back and talk to my younger camper self, the girl nervously standing by the bus, oversized duffel bag in hand, trying to act like she wasn’t freaking out, I know exactly what I’d say.
