Friday Fun…Summer Camp? Sports? How Was Yours Spent??

I did not go to any camps as a child... my mother shipped us off to the country for the summer with our grandmother to get away from NYC heat and humidity in the days when AC was not the norm. I hated it... always begged my mother to let me stay with her in the city. Even as a child, I preferred the concrete jungle to the country. (That hasn't changed in my old age, by the way.) 😊

I remember vacation bible school, fishing in the bayous of south Louisiana and playing in the yard with friends until dark. 

We created games, and build forts in the back yard and created our own olympics!

I keep hearing of young people today saying they are depressed. I think I would have been depressed sitting in the house all day looking at a phone or video games!

Good morning Kathy. My days off school or vacation were spent working in my Dad's body shop. We lived on a river, so after work I could go boating if we got home early enough. Great times and learned the value of hard work! Enjoy your day.

Hello Kathy - as a child, I remember summer school, pool time and some entrepreneurial experiences of running my own curbside refreshment business.   

Kathy, kids are definitely enjoying their summer away from school.  Laura's daughter was in an acting camp, and tonight, we are going to watch the performance.

Hello Kathy, I got to see my childhood neighbor this past week and he is 72 now and we talked about so many things we did as kids, from setting off rockets and fireworks and go carting.

Outdoor time and lots of it is what I remember Kathy. And always looked forward to "Joe The Cream Man" ringing his bells in the early evenings letting us know his truck was there and it was time for dessert!

When I was a kid, my family often had summer vacations at the beach in Duck, North Carolina. My father and some of his friends owned a hilltop house with land that ran from the sound to the ocean.

When my boy was younger I would send him to summer camp each year. He loved it.

Oh man we did so many different things over the summer time!  Mostly I remember living out at our lake home, swimming, boating, fishing, playing volleyball, fish frys - all kind of fun stuff.  I also remember playing 'jacks' with girlfriends on sidewalks.  And traveling quite a lot with my parents.  We saw a lot of the USA which was really cool.

Oh I almost forgot - we also built a stage and put on lots of 'shows' and had lots of kids attend!  That was very fun!

Kathy lets hope kids take advantage of all the summer fun activities available to them, instead of sitting in the house with their nose buried in their iPhone or iPad.

Kathy,I took advantage of many Boy Scout camps such as aquatic, camping, and marksmanship. In high school I got into Leadership camps, football camps and finally became a camp counselor for the Washington State leadership conference.

I never went to camp as a child. I guess I'm making up for it now. LOL