Kansas City Star: Summer camps find a new trend: Kidsick parents, not homesick kids
CHICAGO | Eve Pidgeon watched the large group of kids, many of them laughing and chatting excitedly as they boarded a bus for camp last summer.
“They just couldn’t wait,” said Pidgeon, whose 8-year-old daughter, Zoe, was among the young campers.
Then Pidgeon looked around and noticed something else: “There were no children crying — just parents.”
These days, camp leaders and family counselors say it is an increasingly common dynamic. It used to be the homesick kid begging to come home from camp. While that still happens, they have noticed that it is often parents who have more trouble letting go. …
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