When I was growing up, kids didn’t have the constant electronic tether to their parents that they do today. It caused the inevitable problems of course – for instance, never knowing where my brother was at dinner time (and having to call everyone in the neighborhood to find out), going to the wrong mall entrance to get picked up and missing our mom, not knowing when she’d get there to pick us up, etc.
Archive for the 'Musings' Category
A Good Disconnect
Published July 19, 2012 Electronics , Letters to camp , Musings , Opinion , Overnight camp , Parenting 3 CommentsTags: Cell phones, Email, Hollee Actman Becker, Kidsicknes, Letters to camp, Mashable, Musings, Overnight camp, Parenting, Slate, sleepaway camp, Suburb Babble, Summer camp, Time
Thanks for Visiting Us 100,000+ Times
Published June 30, 2012 Letters to camp , Musings Leave a CommentTags: Another year of letters to camp, Letters to camp, Welcome back
Hard to believe, but the Letters to Camp blog has now been read well over 100,000 times! Now in its fifth year, this blog has been raising quite a ruckus by providing helpful letter-writing tips to parents, grandparents, family, and friends writing letters to their kids at overnight camps. It sounds so simple and yet… I know, it’s crazy to think that anyone would want help writing funny, engaging, supportive letters to their kids at camp. But that’s why I started the blog in the first place – I was desperate for help creating witty, clever letters to my own kids, day in and day out for what would turn out to be about 400 letters so far (yikes). I hope that this site will continue to provide you with inspiration and clever ideas to help you to support your camper.
Welcome back to another season of Letters TO Camp! Check back regularly and be sure to take a look at the categories to your right to find all of the resources you need for great letters to your kids at camp!
Steve, Editor
Kids @ Home
Published August 20, 2011 Letters to camp , Musings , Stories Leave a CommentTags: Kids at home, Letters to camp, Musings, Parenting, summercamp
My kids came home from camp on Thursday. Each year that day has a certain rhythm to it. So I’d like to share that day with you: from silence to chaos and back again. Here goes.
6:20 am. Silence. The dog nestles up to me – for him, I’m just another warm body. “Honey, time to get up so we can leave at 7:15.” Still quiet…
6:30 am. Sniff, sniff: I smell nothing but broken plaster around the new windows in the kids’ rooms.
7:23 am. Leaving the house to pick up our camper. GPS says we’ll be there at about 9:18 am, 18 minutes after the gates open for final pickup.
8:00 am. Discussing with my wife how our kids feel that this is their worst day of the year, since they have to leave camp. We’re happy to have them home but I’m not sure I’d say this is our best day.
The kids’ best day is the day they go to camp. And that’s why that day is our worst day. Although after ten summers, we’re kind of used to it by now. Or numb – not sure which.
The Last Email
Published August 18, 2011 Letters to camp , Musings , Stories Leave a CommentTags: Letters to camp, Musings, summercamp, The last letter
It was now 9:55 am on Wednesday, August 17, and the daily email was due by 10 am or it wouldn’t make the cutoff.
Type, type, click, click, send. Off it went. Seconds later, I received notification that the email to our camper had been received by camp. And that, well that, that was it. The final email letter of the summer. Our tenth summer. Continue reading ‘The Last Email’
What Type of Letter-Writer Are You?
Published July 17, 2011 Educational , Funny , Funny letters , Jokes , Letters to camp , Musings , Sample Letters 1 CommentTags: Camp letter ideas, Funny letters to campers, Jokes, Letters to camp, Sample Letters, types of letter writers
It doesn’t matter – your camper will love your letters!
My wife likes to write long, thoughtful and complete letters to our campers. Me – I’m a get-to-the-point kind of guy – unless I’m writing a funny letter, in which case I become an author or a comedian with a long setup. Read on to learn about the different types of letter-writers. Continue reading ‘What Type of Letter-Writer Are You?’
7 Point Font & Other Acts of Desperation
Published August 5, 2010 Funny , Letter ideas , Opinion 4 CommentsTags: Advice, Camp letter ideas, Camper, Funny, Letter-writing advice, Letters to camp, Links to other sites, Overnight camp, Parenting, What not to write, What to write
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By now, you’re a seasoned letter-writer. Your letters to camp are masterful. Funny. No, hysterical. Engaging. Illuminating. Pieces of fine art. World-class prose. On par with those of John and Abigail Adams. But if your letters are too long, how can you shorten them?
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