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Is Summer Camp a real thing, have you ever been there, what was it like, and why do parents send their kids there the whole summer?
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Edit: Iâve discovered itâs not the whole summer, you guys can stop commenting that, I get it
Top Comment: Yes. There are multiple iterations, there is no one kind of âsummer camp.â No See #2 Most of the time they are not the whole summer. Theyâre usually 1-2 weeks, sometimes shorter sometimes longer. If you had kids at home all summer theyâre gonna get bored if they arenât old enough to work, and you as the adult need to work and canât be supervising them all the time, so summer camps come in. It gets them out of the house, away from trouble, and you some time away from them. Win-win-win.
Are US Summer Camps real?
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You see them so often in movies and TV shows and they seem so spectacular. Of course I know that summer camps exist irl. But are they really as awesome as movies make them seem? Sometimes they have workshops with all kinds of equipment, colors etc. so the kids can just use to craft anything and often these camps seem to have TONS of equipment like boats, extra tents, game equipment...that just screams expensive. So are they really like in the movies and if so, how much do they cost to attend?
Top Comment: they vary in quality and purpose, i'm sure there are expensive ones that match or even outpace those movie ones. and dirt cheap ones with bare amenities
What is 'Summer Camp'?
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Heard it referenced in films and TV shows, but never understood if this was something the everyone did, some people did, why they did it and what it was?
(Question posted from the UK).
Top Comment: There's different versions of it and some people went to it, some didn't. We had a church camp we went to in the summer. It was a week long. You played sports and hung out with kids your age and did team activities and things like that. You met new people and had fun. I'm sure most of them probably aren't religious though.
What are the differences in summer camps now compared to a few decades ago?
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I went to camp the year I turned 10, although it was not the overnight kind. It was the kind where a shuttle bus (usually someone's van) picked you up in the morning, took you to the camp, and brought you back in the early evening that same day. It was a five-day thing, and it was fun. I think it would have been more fun if it had been the overnight kind, though.
Over the years, I'd say, probably 10-20 percent of the movies I have seen had a camp-type of setting, proving how important camping is in American culture. Even in the world of make-believe, camp was still pretty important.
But things, and people, in America these days have changed, and I can't help but wonder about how much the summer camp situation has changed now, compared to a few decades ago.
For those here who have experience with the camps, can you tell me your views?Have the activities changed? Have the attitudes of the campers changed? Have the counselors changed? Have the amenities changed?
I'd like to read what you have to say about that. Thanks in advance! John from Ohio.
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Are summer camps still a thing?
Main Post: Are summer camps still a thing?
Top Comment: Yes.
why are summer camps such a big thing in the US?
Main Post: why are summer camps such a big thing in the US?
Top Comment: Kids are off in the summer, parents are not. So, this gives parents anywhere from a week to a month of free time to themselves Is that not a thing in the UK?
Why are summer camps so expensive?
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The summer camp my daughter (11F) wants to go to this year costs $2000/wk. How do working families afford that?
How do you keep your kids busy over the summer so they're not just vegging out on the couch and staying up all night to sleep all day? All her friends here apparently are going to camp this summer so she's afraid nobody will be around to hang out with. For what it's worth, we typically camp every other weekend and every weekend we try to plan some kind of family activity.
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