Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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During the past five years of double-digit gains in the Dow, enrollment at residential and day camps has swelled by 8% to 10% a year, to an expected record of 9 million kids this summer. Coincidence? I don't think so. Hundreds of thousands of the little squirts are headed for private residential camps where fees run as high as $125 a day. Our daughter hoped to be bunking with them...
...worry, said Susan Greenberg, project director for a reference called Peterson's Summer Opportunities for Kids and Teenagers: "There are thousands of choices out there, so focusing on just one is really tunnel vision." One of her favorites, Campus Kids, operates two sleep-away camps in New Jersey and Connecticut from Monday to Friday, so campers can spend weekends at home. It sounded perfect for a mom with separation anxiety, but they had a waiting list for 10-year-old girls...
This was sounding a lot like what we'd patched together in the past. One August our older daughter spent a week cleaning a stable (cleverly disguised as "horse camp") near the cottage we borrow every summer. After we got home, she did a week of gymnastics camp, and she and her little sister went to Bible camp. This summer our seven-year-old plans to attend the town rec department's $50-a-week day camp. But her big sister was increasingly desperate to head for the hills...
...year-old, who brazenly lobbied for a California camp until we warned her to quit while she was ahead. We finally lucked out with a terrific-looking three-week academic program in Massachusetts. If she likes it, we're told, we should sign her up for next summer before check-out time on the last...
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