Welcome to speed Round Sunday on the Parenting Roundabout podcast, where we share a
mini episode from our past for your weekend listening pleasure. We'll be back tomorrow
with a brand new episode. We were unsure about what angle to put on
our summer camp discussion, but it seems like something that is coming upright at
the moment. So I'm going to ask y'all, are your kids going to
camp this summer? If not, why not? And if there was an
ideal camp you could send the to them to, what would it be?
So pick take your choice from amongst those topics. Katherine, what do you
got to say about camp today? All right? Well, my kids are
both going to a traditional summer camp where it's on an island and oh my,
on an island a little a little island in a lake. Okay,
canoe there, or they go on a pontoon boat. From the first they
take a bus and then they go on the pontoon boat across. I mean,
it's what you could This sounds like a setting for so many movies and
it's like a parent trap style camp. All right, then you're doing the
camp thing right girl? For one week only though, I mean, it's
not like these East Coast camps where kids go for yeah or something that they're
only going for one week each because at the same time or different times,
different times because it's you know, single sex. So the first week is
a boy's week and that's when my son is going, and then my daughter
will go the following week and there are they've already talked about how they're gonna
try to coordinate it so that they can like wave at each other as one
as one is coming home pontoon boats pass. Yeah, they want to like
high facilarious or something. So yeah, so we'll see. So coming up
is when I have to get my son packed up, so that that'll be
fun. Yeah. They have a whole list of what you are to send.
Yeah, they have a list, and it's pretty you know, it's
pretty predictable. And I got some you know, real serious bug spray and
um. They have to bring rags because they are expected to clean. Oh
no, they're going to bring their own rack. They have to bring their
own rack to clean at this camp. But they have to bring their own
rags. Never learn dust rags. And they have to bring clothes pins.
Oh yeah, the little dust back or something, you know, I think
it. Do they bring pins to hang up there to hang up their wet
towels? And why they don't have books for those? But I guess to
spread it out from corner to corner or someone. So yeah, then they
are very excited. And a week is good, you know. Yeah,
I think I would have a hard time with a really long camp. Yeah,
so I think a week. No, it is this good for you
that you will be without one child for a week rather than being without two
children? Is it? Do you like it that you'll have time with each
one separately when the other one's in camp? Yeah, well we regret not
having just some child free time. Yeah, I mean it's it's kind of
nice to have just one at a time. And um, I feel like
when they're when if they're both gone, then there's so much pressure on time,
Like you better enjoy that. You better like be super productive and go
have lots of fun with your friends and your husband and do all this stuff.
Yeah, and like, oh that's too much pressure. Yes, So
this way you just have one kid and I just have one one set of
activities and driving driving around yes, yes, So Nicole, is your is
your daughter going to camp? Or son? Out of camp age. My
son is is is Son's already family planning, all right. My son is
mapping out his career. He's getting ready to graduate young adult Professional camp.
Exactly, give you the paper work for all that where they give you the
reality of life. They schedule in the baby, all right, what are
you doing in November? Of No, he's he's beyond that, although he
does do his own little version when he goes and catches lizards in the desert.
So true. Um, yeah, so he's on that. My daughter,
as you all know, does not do sleepovers and the thought of a
sleepaway camp terrifies her, even though she's sixteen. Um, she's but you
know, she's just not even interested in camping period. Like she's not I
don't know what I've raised, but she is. She's you know, she's
not a rough kind of girl. And which is so funny because I didn't
grow up that way. I grew up very much the opposite. So yeah,
um, yeah, she has no interest in You moved her to California
changes everything. There's not like some specialty camp somewhere like their tech camp or
or hair camp or I don't know what camp. No, No, she
would totally totally be disgusted if she heard kind of thing. She's interested in
writing camp. Maybe she's all over the tech stuff and the stem stuff.
She's not, you know, all about the fingernails, not all about the
southern California girl thinging. Okay, that's kind of music camp. When I
was growing up in southern California and we all sat around with guitars and well,
there are a million camps down here because of the population. I mean
when I'm saying, I would think there would be one camping for everything,
but they're sleep away, like they're not in this area. And she won't
sleep away and she won't do that, right, I mean, and we've
exhausted everyday camp in our community. Ye I can see because she's sixteen.
So I mean, we've done everything. But the other part of that story
too is that she's also having to take summer school to get her PE class
out of the way, which got circumvented mid year and unfortunately due to her
tennis coach but we shall not go there and ranted about that last yeah,
and so anyway, so she's taking this PE class. It just kind of
almost like a camp because they go from seven thirty to one and they camp
joy. Yeah, that's the dream come true right there. So she came
home like how it I would have been aware to just like grouse about the
whole thing, which is like, oh, so many of my friends are
in it and we socialize. I guess the cause you know, it's California,
right, so you know they do an hour of stretching in yoga and
then they go outside and they play you know, some sort of I don't
know, softball or something, and then they go to the pool and they
just like languish in the pool for an hour and a half. And that's
the man camp. Yeah, right, I think we need a mom is
only my camp? So which exists, which she existed, would be a
mom camp, right, shouldn't there be a mom camp where you would just
go for a week, you'd say, you know, you bring your stationary,
write your kids letters, but you go someplace and like to like you
go someplace like Nicholes going to college, just where you would just sit around
and like you know, flush robes and um, you can tell your family
it's a healthcare, you know, women's health care. Yes, yes,
I think tell your tell your Beverly Hill's gonna college just to work on that.
I bet there's I bet there's something something there. They could they could
expand their business. They were awesome. Did I tell you that I got
a bill for the mamogram the other week? Yeah, hill style. Yeah,
you want to take a guess how much it was. I have no
frame of reference, which they are normally minus health insurance. It was eight
thousand dollars. Oh my god. Wait, that was the part you had
to pay. That was my patient responsibility. But I'm hoping there's a butt.
They must have some very uh wealthy what do you call it donors?
I don't know, something along those lines. Yeah, because um, it
was subsidized and I only have to pay forty You go to charity mamogram story
ever long time to go. We brought this little woman in from Redlands and
gave her a mamogram for promotional material. She pulled up in a Toyota Corolla.
We got sorry for her for incoverished people that we help here. She
pull me on their brochure, their philanthropy brochure for outreach the Empire. I
just got. I got my notice that I'm supposed to go in for a
mamogram do you think I could lie out there and light It's not awesome?
Forty bucks? Oh my godness, that was hilarious. Anyway, that little
side, yes side, the Beverly Hills charity cases. I don't think we
can top that. I'm just gonna say