Another Nerdy Saturday Night and Summer Camps

Victor and Emery are playing Lord of the Rings Monopoly while watching The Hobbit, part 2.

I think the only thing to top that would be if we were reading another Shakespeare play out loud.

So, have you signed up for your summer camps yet? If not, you’re probably too late to get into the more popular ones. Like the Percy Jackson one held in Austin, TX each year--registration begins in November. 

As you know from a post I did last year, we sign up for camps early each year. We’ve had a lot of success and failures (I’ve lost many dollars on camps Emery left early). We’re only doing two camps this year, both theatre camps, because we’re taking a very exciting trip. More on that later, but just a few additions to my choosing summer camps rules:

1.    Don’t regret missing a camp because you’ve scheduled a big trip. It’s going to be okay if your kid can’t star in the local kids' version of Peter Pan.

2.    By all means, get your kid’s opinion but you have the final word. Research, find out information from others who have attended the camp before and make an informed decision. 

3.    Don’t put a kid in a camp with a friend just so he can be with that friend. It’s not fair for anybody to make sacrifices with money or time, just so they can be together—there are always times outside of camps.

4.    I can’t comment on overnight camps, but if your kid says he doesn’t want to go, don’t make him. Even if it’s the super awesome sounding Stagedoor Manor (I just read Theater Geeks, written by the same guy, Mickey Rapkin, who wrote the book Pitch Perfect was based on which is about a theater camp).

5.    An educational camp is still education, even if it’s a camp that uses science to teach Minecraft. School is school.

Now that camps are signed up for, it’s time to think about the summer project for Emery. Two years ago, it was the Medieval Times, last year Shakespeare, I suppose this year it needs to be something science-related.

I always liked physics.