So last week on Traveling Mom.com, I wrote about camping. Or, to be more honest, about NOT camping. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s just that — well, I don’t know how so I don’t want to.
So this week, I started looking for alternatives. And here’s what I came up with: Family Camp.
Family Camp is sleepaway camp for everyone: the bunks, the campfires, the mess halls, and games of spin the bottle (oh, well, maybe not.) In any case, it sounds like fun to me. Sleepaway camp was great. I made lifelong friends, (I had dinner with one last night), I had my first kiss, my first lead in a big musical (at 11, I was Mary Poppins! Whoo!). I learned how to use a potters wheels and lost my virginity to a lake when I attempted water-skiing. I even I found out that it was possble for both of your counselors to get knocked up by the same guy in six short weeks. (OK, so maybe it wasn’t ALL positive)
This time around, I’ll be Mommy. No first kisses– and clearly the virginity thing is WAY over. But I’ll be Mommy in shorts, no make-up, and using a communal shower. Don’t ask me why- but I think I”m gonna like it.
Read more about Family Camps on my post on Traveling Mom.com
I can see how this would really be fun for pre-teen children who want to adventure with their parents. However, i think as teens get older, they have that drive to discover things independently as we all tend to do as we get closer and closer to moving out on our own and away from our parent’s home: