My wife, three daughters, and I were sitting around the dinner table after eating. We were taking turns leading the group in singing favorite little songs. After a few rounds, I ran out of choices. My wife said, "Dear, you just didn't go to camp enough as a kid..." Well, I didn't. I never went to camp as a kid. I was a competitive swimmer as a kid which left no room on the schedule for Camp Longhorn os some such place. Did you go to camp as a kid? Was it a rewarding and memorable experience? My oldest daughter (19) went to some local day camps (that have provided her with tons of musical material) and my younger ones (4 and 6) are going to be "of age" for camps in just a few years. Please share your camp stories and commentaries on the value of the "camp" experience for kids.
I went to Camp Longhorn when I was in 4th grade. 3 freaking weeks. I got homesick...I missed Houston. I missed all my friends from home. And I felt like I'd wasted a summer in not hanging out with them. From then on it was just baseball camps at UT and SHSU in Huntsville. Which isn't exactly "camp" but was much more fun...to me, anyway.
I went to two camps as a kid. I didnt like them. I mean as a kid, something I always loved about the summer is the freedom and the free time. At camp everything was structured. It was like school except you did activities instead of schoolwork. There was no messin' around time, no freedom etc. Why couldnt I just run around and play ball or swim for 8 hours a day? Why did I have to take "woodworking?" camp sucks!
My mom was a Girl Scout leader for 30 years, so I went camping all the time and know tons of campfire songs. Kumbaya is embedded in my brain.
I think camp would be great. Teach young kids responsibilities and what not at a young age. The only camp I've been to is sweat shop camp.
I loved going to summer camp because it offered the opportunity to hook up with summer chicks with no commitment afterwards. Summer flings are born in summer camp where everyone has less inhibitions.
I went to a summer camp that was a Christian camp for several years. I loved it. I went to Boyscout once. The food was awful, I didn't like most of it, but some of it was helpful and I learned a lot.
I don't like structured camps. Now camping, on the other hand, I did a lot as a child and it was something I really enjoyed. I used to go with people from my church a lot, and always enjoyed it. I'm not a fan of summer camps or the like at all, but absolutely love camping with friends, something I still try to do a couple of times a year.
Not normally. Today is my 4YO daughter's birthday so we were having something of a birthday dinner with her older sister spending the night from college before beginning Fall Break. My 19YO daughter is interested in musical theatre... so blame it on her... Actually it was kind of a cool after-dinner experience even though I am not musical at all.
i went to bunches of camps-Camp Cullen, Camp Grady Spruce, Camp Strake with the Boy Scouts, and others as well... I loved my experiences as a camper so much, I got a job 7 years ago as a camp counselor, and now it is my career!
I went to camp, but only on the organized trips that our school took every year. So you're at the actual camp, getting to do the usual activities, but you're with a bunch of people from school and you're only there for a week. It would have been cool to go to summer camp... I guess I wasn't really offered the chance. I liked the organization and the fact that at least you meet people. The unstructuredness of summer got boring pretty fast. The only good story I remember (other than testing poison ivy on myself and finding that I wasn't susceptible to it) is when we had the organized pillow fights at night. First all boys, then all girls, then girls vs. boys. We came out, swung our pillows at each other, whatever. Then they asked who wanted to stay and fight the boys. My friends all went over to the side to watch, but I stayed. It was only pillows, right? It couldn't be that bad. Well, whatever they put in those pillowcases was not strictly pillows. There must have been books in there or something. I ran off crying and humiliated. You guys don't play fair.
I was a girl scout for 15 years.... When DIDN'T I go to some kind of camp? Although, a lot of the songs I learned, nobody else around me knows because nobody else around me is a freakin girl scout anymore.
I bet I know 'em. See my above post. I even saved a couple of my mom's old "limmee sticks" (spelling?) as mementos after she passed away. It was really heartwarming when some of her old troop members attended her funeral some 20+ years after being in her troop.
