on SLEEP AWAY CAMPS

Raising Six Children in New York City I take advantage of

the opportunities I have to show my children the summer

outside the City, but in AMERICA.

On a family vacation in Georgia, USA our oldest son was

headed to a sleep away camp for the first time in Arkansas.

We just completed all the paperwork for him to return for the third year

to the same camp for another two week session in the Arkansas Mountains.

My twelve year old goes to camp for two weeks in North Carolina.

My ten year old and eight year old attend camp in Georgia while we stay on property with my six year old and four year old doing family camp activities together ! Tennis, Starter Golf, Swimming, Sailing, Cookie Cutter classes, Ediquette for kids, childrens dances, squash, horsebackriding, watermellon shooting, shelling, biking, and boogie boarding ! All very southern activities !

Many people ask me about camps and I recommend them to look outside the New York Areas for their children to experience something completely different! Also the camps outside New York State are half the price.

Its truly amazing and charming when my children come home singing the anthems from all the southern schools! They meet new friends and enjoy different rituals they might have never experienced. No one knows them and as they are developing their new personalities its great to let them try out these personalities in a safe CAMP space.....

(set to THE PRINCE OF BEL -AIR" theme song:)

I was

up in

Georgia

Just Hanging

around

when my mom

told me bout

this camp

that she found

Then I checked it out

it wasnt so lame

so I packed up my stuff

and got on a plane

When I started to feel

some minor back pain

I turned around

with a bit of

fright

and was told by a kid just

chill

your alright

But when I got off the plane I was

pretty alright

I said I would hang here

I just

might !

-Written by my son