tag:www.barbarafeldman.com,2008://1/tag:blog.surfnetkids.com,2005://3.960- 2008-04-23T05:11:48Z Comments for Summer Sleepaway Camp Pickup Welcome to my office. I am Barbara J. Feldman, syndicated newspaper columnist, online publisher, author, mother, wife and Net surfer supreme (not listed in order of importance, of course). Movable Type 4.1 tag:blog.surfnetkids.com,2005://3.960 2005-07-26T23:24:16Z 2006-06-08T20:16:36Z Summer Sleepaway Camp Pickup Sunday was camp pickup day at my daughter's three-week sleepaway camp. I always look forward to seeing her and hanging out for an hour or two at the camp, meeting... http://www.surfnetkids.com Sunday was camp pickup day at my daughter's three-week sleepaway camp. I always look forward to seeing her and hanging out for an hour or two at the camp, meeting her counselors and the other campers.

This year, my sister-in-law worked at the camp, so I was privy to oodles of insider stories. Like the parents who didn't show up to pickup their daughter. Response when called "Oh.. is pickup today?" After three-weeks? She forgot? What, she forget she had a daughter, or what?

Next story was the grandparents who didn't want to interrupt their vacation to pickup their granddaughter with chicken pox. Their suggestion? Can't you send her to a hospital? Or just let her sleep in an office? Oops... wrong answers.

Okay, okay. These were only two stories out of a couple hundred. But still. Am I wrong here?

]]> tag:blog.surfnetkids.com,2005://3.960-comment:6587 Comment from Amberlee16 on 2005-07-27 Amberlee16 I just don't understand some people. I can understand being late to pick someone up, I can understand if one parent thought the other was going to get the child....but "send her to the hospital or let her sleep in the *OFFICE*"???? I feel so sorry for that child. If I was that child I would never want to go back to my grandparents, they obviously didn't want to be caring for me in the first place. I would be chomping at the bit so to speak to go pick up my daughter at camp--she is gone to her grandparents this week and I miss her a lot. I can't imagine 3 weeks and not knowing when the pickup time is. Has the world become so ME oriented that this is now the norm? I don't think I can stand it....

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