Fading parental morality
There is a great article in the NY Times today reporting on the antics of parents of camp children. Among other egregious offenses, parents are giving their unruly kids 2 cell phones so that when parents violate cell phone call rules they agree to, their child can have a second clandestine cell phone to receive parent calls to schedule conflicting gymnastic and commercial call appointments. Children apparently also need consoling calls from their psychologists for appearing “unhappy” on internet pics during their camp stays. Dude. Seriously.
This drama could not be more different than my camp counselor days in the early 70’s when we fielded all 2 parent calls on Sunday night about bed wetting fears and all 1 calls from campers on Monday night to happily arrange premature rides home. That was it. Our vision and mission was simple: return a child home who is far more durable and agile than they or their parents ever suspected they were capable.
The Times refers to it aptly as “Fading parent morality.”
