The Cambridge Dictionaries Online defines sleepaway camp as “a place where children can go to stay without their parents and do activities”. As someone who never gone to sleepaway camp, I have a somewhat biased view of sleepaway camps as something that is not healthy for children, but as a writer, I have done research on sleepaway topics to see how people today in the 21st century view it. When a child goes to sleepaway camp, they have a chance to meet kids who are different from friends in their hometown, but on the other hand, they miss valuable time with their parents that they don’t get during the school year especially if at least one of the parents don’t work at a full-time job. Parents can do as much research as they want to the camp they could be sending their children to but they there …show more content…
In recent years, the prices of these sleepaway camps have risen in recent years. According to MoneyBox, a blog about business and economics, “Specifically, the average sleepaway camp cost $397 per week back in 2005 and was way up to $690 per week by 2012. That 's a 74 percent increase”. Parents do not want to spend an arm and a leg to send their kids off to camp they have the choice of going camping all together as a family. Now another issue could be that parents can’t get time away from work because financial reasons which another factor why they would send kids off to camp. Like it was said before, at the end of the day it is always the choice of the parent and child to decide to go or not but the best choice would always to just take a vacation with your child that would be