I received a letter yesterday.
It was written in all CAPS with lots of !!!!!!
My parents received a similar letter.
Written in all CAPS with lots of !!!!!
It was so pleading.
So sad.
She is trying to have fun, she says, but she just can’t. She hates the girls in her bunk. Because they aren’t nice. Apparently, moms these days don’t teach their daughters to be nice. Then again, those are the same women who were probably exactly like their daughters when I was growing up.
Apples and trees, right.
ANYWAY…
She is begging to come home. She is miserable.
She asked my dad, her Papa, to come get her.
She asked me to come get her.
So here I sit. Waiting until the camp office opens so the phones can finally be answered.
And I think. Actually, I’m pretty sure, despite the mask of smiles on the pictures I see from the camp website…
I’m going to get my daughter.
Because the thought of her crying at CAMP, well, it sickens me.
It’s camp. Camp is supposed to be fun. She’s been there for *almost* two weeks. If she hasn’t started having fun yet, I think it’s done.
It’s time for her to come home.
Where she can be bored here. At home.
Where she can cry. At home.
She can whine and be miserable here.
Where I can make sure that she’s OK.
Because the thought of my daughter being upset at camp, in a cabin full of bitchy girls. Well, it’s more than I can take.
It’s not worth it.
Nothing is worth it.
So I’ll just bring her and all her dirty laundry home.
Yep, I would bring her home. My daughter is ten and if she was still asking to come home after about five days I would let her.
oh wow. That is absolutely heartbreaking! I remember going to camp for ONE week and hating it. The food was horrible… I survived on STARBURST candy and counted down the minutes until I got to leave!!
Poor girl! Mean girls suck! I don’t blame you for wanting to bring her home. My parents probably would have left me there and chalked it up to a character building expereience and it would have sucked! Hope you get someone on the phone at camp soon!
Girls are just mean.
I have noticed already that if you have more than two girls in a room, drama is sure to ensue because girls can’t seem to help being nasty.
I hate it. And I hate that you’re hurting for your kiddo.
They best be calling you back ASAP.
{hugs}
Relax, she’ll be o.k.. You’re daughter is going through a rite of passage. This reminds me of my nephew a few years ago. http://bad-momma.blogspot.com/2007/07/letters-from-camp.html
Ironically he just got back from a scuba-diving camp in Aruba. My sister was a nervous wreck the whole time. Other than the plane trip back home (missed flight due to a chaperone mess-up) he had a great time!
I would, too, I think. If you both gave it nearly two weeks. That’s a long time.
Difficult decision, though.
i was totally that girl! i went to a new camp one summer when i was 14, and i HATED IT. the girls were mean; the staff wouldn’t let me call home; i avoided the dining hall and ate only tic tacs; i spent my days alone, reading books and listening to a jon secada cassingle. i eventually was able to call home from a payphone at a chinese restaurant (my bunk had “free nights” where we could leave camp) and i pleaded with my mom to come get me ASAP. thankfully, she did. i was miserable, and it was clear it wasn’t going to get any better. to this day, i still harbor resentment toward those girls and that camp. and i think it was pretty amazing of my mom to drive up and save me.
awww poor baby. Id go get her too.
After two weeks, if she is still that miserable, I think I’d go pick up my kid too. Hopefully you can talk with to her on the phone to find out how bad she really feels. Good luck.
i *wrote* one of those letters when i was 9 and at camp for the first time.
i stuck it out and had a blast.
talk to the camp administrators and get the full story.
then bring her home.
Awwwww….I was at cheer camp for a week and HATED it. One thing worse than mean girls are mean cheerleader girls. Bitches.
I totally support your decision in getting her. Mommy instincts exist for a reason.
It’s not right for everyone.
And you’re right, if it’s been two weeks and she’s that desperate…it’s time.
Besides, she can get all the bitchy she needs from you, right? ;P
Did you go get her? 🙁
This breaks my heart.