![]() The child care crisis has several branches but the most important is the lack of year-round federal support for children ages zero to five, too young to go to school. The summer camp conundrum is an offshoot of the child care crisis, a problem exacerbated in America by the lack of any federal infrastructure to support parents of young children. At the start of each calendar year, the battle begins of where will he go to camp – what are the fewest hours he needs to actually do something, and what are the handful of places in which he will want to attend? Which are the ones that aren’t packed with kids and managed by a handful of underprepared teenagers? And the biggest question – which one of his parents cuts back on work hours and stays home with him if whatever chosen camp we’ve selected turns out to be an epic fail? And then what do we do? There is no readily-available summer camp that can meet his needs that he is willing to attend. He has no interest in sharing Legos with anyone. ![]() He’s sensitive to big groups, noisy kids, and does poorly with too much overstimulation with too little downtime. He goes to school willingly each morning and has a small group of friends there, whom he plays with at recess. He likes baseball, tolerates swimming, and while most kids run in spurts or dashes, he prefers the quiet solitude of distance running, and runs two miles with a sub-9 minute mile split. ![]() His favorite activity is to play with Legos by himself.
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