When I was eight my parents sent me to slipper-boy camp, for boys who wore slippers, bathrobes and had chains on their glasses at home. It was very pleasant. It was located in an old brick building with mesh on the windows and was surrounded by a high wall. Every morning, noon, and just after dinner they gave us little multi-colored candies to swallow whole. We would sit in a circle and talk about ourselves while Doctor Rottwang took notes. We made crafts and painted watercolors and sometimes graduates students from the university would come play with us. Sometimes if we got too excited they would put us on rides though I don't remember much about. Luckily it was covered by my Dad's health insurance. I was there for 27 months
As a child did you go to sleep-away camp? Did it have a theme?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 29, 2025 6:31 AM |
No. I grew up on a 100 acre farm. I would have loved a summer in the city. LOL
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 28, 2025 8:25 PM |
-473/10
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 28, 2025 8:27 PM |
No. But I did have a sleep-over at Coach's cabin up at Big Bear once.
Unfortunately, none of the other guys on the Senior soccer team could make it. He told me that they'd all come down with a bad case of the flu, then praised me for my strong immune system and told me how robust and able-bodied I was, which I believe was the theme.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 28, 2025 10:39 PM |
Yes, one out in the desert, for years. It had a ranch theme. Ranch and religion, boy howdy!
Another horrible camp we tried once was in the mountains. Lots of biting flies, the overnight hike of death, unsure footing and powdering trails maybe 6" wide on the side of mountains. Buck up and do it campers! Other campers were mean and there were no ladders for the top bunks. Those of us who were shorter were supposed to get up there, how?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 28, 2025 10:43 PM |
I was molested at Girl Scout camp.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 28, 2025 11:54 PM |
It's a long story.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 28, 2025 11:57 PM |
I went to Baptist church summer camp for a week each year for several years. I hated all the sports and activities, but I loved seeing the camp counselors (who were 16 or 17 while I was 9 or 10) shower naked.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 29, 2025 12:08 AM |
Old-school sleep-away camp in Maine, 8-weeks every summer. It was pretty amazing, rustic and posh - on a beautiful lake northwest of Augusta. Every recreational activity imaginable, ingrained traditions and comraderie - it was absolutely idyllic.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 29, 2025 12:18 AM |
No I was a really antisocial kid and thankfully my mom understood
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 29, 2025 12:35 AM |
The theme was my rich, aging party-girl aunt's big ramshackle house on Long Island sound in Connecticut. Ok it wasn't camp but it felt like it because it was kids world. She was even more latch-key than my parents were.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 29, 2025 12:54 AM |
Yes, it was called My Nonna's House. The theme was "go outside and play".
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 29, 2025 12:57 AM |
Speaking of camps:
Four killed when vehicle crashes into after-school program site in Illinois
The victims at the YNOT After School Camp in Chatham, Illinois, range in age from 4 to 18 years old, authorities said.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 29, 2025 12:59 AM |
YNOT?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 29, 2025 1:06 AM |
[quote] YNOT?
I find that interpretation acceptable. Why not?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 29, 2025 1:08 AM |
Yes: Sibling cloning!
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 29, 2025 3:25 AM |
27 months in the booby hatch leaves a scar.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 29, 2025 4:52 AM |
OP have you had to go to “sleep away camp” as an adult? How was the Thorazine?
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 29, 2025 5:17 AM |
I’m r17. Deeply regret that post after reading the whole thread. I’m sorry.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 29, 2025 5:20 AM |
No. My family has money...
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 29, 2025 5:20 AM |
My camp experience. Hmmm. Nothing really awful, just me at 11 trying to be normal at a camp like on TV or in a book I read.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 29, 2025 5:58 AM |
I was threatened with sleepaway school by my dad.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 29, 2025 6:31 AM |