Sleepaway camp in the 21st century
Like Nick Sortal in the post below, my kids are also in sleepaway camp. But unlike Nick, I have not been wrestling with how much distance we should maintain. I remain obsessed with them!
We didn't let my 13-year-old daughter take her cell phone to camp. But I send all three kids e-mails through Bunk1, a fabulous site our camp in Georgia connected with a few years ago. You can e-mail your kid and they get the letter the next day, although they can't e-mail you back. They have to write back the old-fashioned way.
Our camp also takes hundreds of pictures of the kids every day and posts them on the site. This has become my summer obsession: I check every few hours to see if there are new pictures. You can also read camp newsletters and send the kids care packages through Bunk1.
Sleepaway camp is definitely a time the kids start to learn to live away from their parents. But that doesn't mean they, or we, have to give up every modern convenience. Long live Bunk1!
