I'm sure I'll understand when I have kids of my own.

Wait, no. No, I won't.

You know, we talk about women becoming more independent over the years and realizing their value outside the home and their positions as wives and mothers, and the shiat like this just kicks them back to the medieval age.

Tr0mBoNe:I thought the only point of Summer Camp was to get the runts out of your hair because the teachers won't work 12 months out of the year.

That kid is going to have a tough time at University...

Oh, no. The parents are going to keep tabs on them at college as well. Make sure they did their work, do their laundry, yell at professors.

The important question is, when did we get so obsessive? Is this the result of a generation raised by baby boomer parents?

Important announcement: Some hunters have been seen in the woods near Piney Ridge trail and the fish and game commission has raised the legal kill limit on campers to three. So, if you're hiking today, please wear something bright and keep low.

Attention. Here's an update on tonight's dinner. It was veal. I repeat, veal. The winner of tonight's mystery meat contest is Jeffrey Corbin who guessed "some kind of beef."

Why do creepy basement dwellers care, what helicopter parents do
with their precious snowflakes.

FTA: Pearson cannot recall one time that a camper had to go home because of homesickness, but said "parents have a terrible time with their kids being gone."

Yeah, because now the soccer moms don't have an excuse not to put out.

WTF is wrong with mommies that cease being wives when they spawn?

The first year we really missed our oldest when she went to camp. This year it was a quick kiss and "see ya later!" The wife and I are eagerly waiting for next year when our youngest is able to go to camp for a week as well. Sign them up for the same week, book a cruise for us and all is peachy!

My mom checks my Facebook routinely, under my account, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

Seriously, this part isn't too bad

La Villa Espanola, a Spanish immersion summer camp in Joplin, Mo., decided to use modern technology to fight this modern parenting trend. The camp sets a designated time every day when kids can e-mail their parents, said camp director Leslie Parker. Staffers also update a Web page with photos of the day's activities.

That sounds pretty cool actually. Very few camps do that nowadays. My old summercamp is lucky to update is website once a year.

But I guess when you're camping in the middle of nowhere surrounded by bugs and flies, the internets isn't your top priority.

Ug Lee and Zeke the Plumber ftw

The solution...

Yet poor Donkey Lips couldn't get his parents to give a rat's patoot.

Johnny went to summer camp
Hoping to score with some young tramp
He hiked so much he got a cramp
On a certain day in June.

His mom hoped that he'd be home soon
And cried at night under the moon
"99 Luftballoons"
Was her favorite song.

The intarwebs made her days less long
She spied on Johnny, it wasn't wrong
On Fark there are hot chicks in thongs
And a Godbot named Bevets.

APPROVES (new window)

tuna fingers:I stalk kids on camp websites too, so I'm really getting a kick...

Is this you?.

GoRedSoxGo:I'm sure I'll understand when I have kids of my own.

Wait, no. No, I won't.

You know, we talk about women becoming more independent over the years and realizing their value outside the home and their positions as wives and mothers, and the shiat like this just kicks them back to the medieval age.

it may just be because women are certifiable.

/just sayin'

My parents were always happy for us to go off to school for a new year, or go to summer camp, and be out of their damned hair. =P

'The flag's goin' up!' as my mom would say. Never quite understood what she meant by that, but she was happy enough to not have to worry about us all the time during summer break.

I'd be doing some spying on bunk 7, if you know what I mean


Here's what I mean


This guy knows what I mean

TeddyRooseveltsMustache
I R Slow

I miss summer camp. Going back as a counselor one summer was the best -- like being a camper, but high.

my mom and grandparents did this when i went to a summer academic thingy in connecticut for two weeks. they sent me emails EVERY DAY. (they print out the emails and give them to you) it was ridiculous. i just didn't respond to them. ever. hah.

STALINISM! IT'S STALINISM! WHY DO LIBERALS HATE OUR FREEDOMS????

Rev. Skarekroe:FTA Pearson, a youth minister for 26 years, has noticed increased anxieties recently, especially after Sept. 11, 2001. Because of modern realities such as terrorism and high divorce rates, he thinks people in general are more insecure.

I understand summer camps are a big Al Qaeda target.

It's all about the recruitment, see. Everyone knows terrorists train in CAMPS... oh gods.

Rev. Skarekroe:of modern realities such as terrorism and high divorce rates, he thinks people in general are more insecure.

I understand summer camps are a big Al Qaeda target.

Obviously. Number 7 on the list of most likely to strike targets.

/Number 1 is your house, not the neighbors. Yours

BTW Zeke the Plumber farking traumatized me as a child.

/no idea why

"Fun in the Son, a Christian camp in southern Missouri"

Man, these write themselves...

Daanon:Sounds like fun to me...

I went to camp with her best friend (back in 5th grade). Chick's name was Jamin. True fact.

/Jewish.
//Grandfather was named Benjamin.

I was one of the few moms who didn't cry when I dropped my oldest off at school for her first day of kindergarten this past September. I almost started to think there was something wrong with me because I was not an emotional wreck about it like everyone else.

Sending her to camp for a week or two? Why should that be so farking difficult? Kids need that time away from their parents as much as the parents need some time away from their kids. Everyone benefits. So quitcher cryin' and celebrate!



/stay at home mom
//happy when the kids go away
///and surprisingly happier when they come back
//absence makes the heart grow fonder
/slashie pattern

smeag0l:Why do, creepy basement dwellers care, what helicopter, parents do
with their, precious snowflakes.

/needs more commas!

As a mom who wishes she had installed a webcam in her 8 9 year old daughters backpack for her camping trip tonight, I'm getting a real ki...

wait.. no.. no I'm not.

The concern comes when there are so damn many horrible, horrible parents... so you look around and say "dear god.. I CAN'T be one of those people.. so I'd better do some sort of making-up for them... and like hell I'm going to let my child near THEIR children... and here's another report of a teacher being a child molestor.." until the ellipses don't stop and you're spinning & hyperventilating & driving up to pick up your child before you know it.

Oh, and your parents kicking you out of the house at 7am and saying "I don't expect you back before supper" was NOT good parenting.

Oh, Hell no.

Here are you bags. Don't let the door of the bus hit you in the ass on the way out.

Where's my damn beer?

My mom is a teacher who supervises a day camp at her school. She used to love it because her job consisted of sitting by the pool, getting a tan, and making sure the little bastards didn't kill each other.

Now 25-30% of her lil' campers take pictures with their cell phones to show their parents if their hands are dirty.

I don't think my mom will be at the day camp next summer.

"...But, the real excitement of course is going to come at the end of the summer, during Sexual Awareness week. We import two hundred hookers from around the world, and each camper, armed with only a thermos of coffee and two thousand dollars cash, tries to visit as many countries as he can. The winner of course is named King of Sexual Awareness week and is allowed to rape and pillage the neighboring towns until camp ends."

ophilye:until the ellipses don't stop and you're spinning & hyperventilating & driving up to pick up your child before you know it. ...kicking you out of the house at 7am and saying "I don't expect you back before supper"


There's such a thing as a happy medium, ya know. I suggest you try and find it before you pass on your neurosis.

Dennis_Moore:Attention. Here's an update on tonight's dinner. It was veal. I repeat, veal. The winner of tonight's mystery meat contest is Jeffrey Corbin who guessed "some kind of beef."


I think my Mystery meat tonight is chicken. The wife
says no.
Will take another guess later after I finish the pudding.