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Sick of Winter? Let's do some kid summer memories!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 407534" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>I also grew up in the Great City of NY --- I am so not a country girl. My summer memories involve hiding under my bed at the summer camp my parents forced me to go to so that I wouldn't have to walk barefoot in the grass... scratching my arms raw every day so I would be allowed to stay out of the lake, hitting myself in the face with a baseball I tossed up in to the air so I wouldn't have to play sports anymore and my personal favorite, throwing all of my shoes and underwear out of the apartment window so I wouldn't have to go to camp. Unfortunately, we lived on the first floor and my mom saw it all and made me go out and get it... The same trick had worked for my friend - however, both of her parents were blind! One year, I saw a commercial for the Fresh Air Fund (a charity that sends poor kids to summer camps) and a little boy was saying "I've never been to a farm? Will you take me there?" The camp I went to was a charity camp so I asked my parents if they had a camp in Manhattan where I could live with another family and they would take me to see plays and museums!</p><p></p><p>I loved running around in the sprinkler in the playground with the cement floor, going in the public pool when I got a bit older, sitting outside in the shade on a bench reading a book - I ALWAYS wore my shoes and never walked in the grass.</p><p></p><p>To this day, I love the heat of summer on my skin. I adore sitting outside reading a book. I love buying my kids an ice cream treat at the truck once in awhile. I remember my childhood summers, other than those horrible weeks in the country, with fondness. I still hate the country so much that I can't believe we send our kids to camp and they like it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 407534, member: 3493"] I also grew up in the Great City of NY --- I am so not a country girl. My summer memories involve hiding under my bed at the summer camp my parents forced me to go to so that I wouldn't have to walk barefoot in the grass... scratching my arms raw every day so I would be allowed to stay out of the lake, hitting myself in the face with a baseball I tossed up in to the air so I wouldn't have to play sports anymore and my personal favorite, throwing all of my shoes and underwear out of the apartment window so I wouldn't have to go to camp. Unfortunately, we lived on the first floor and my mom saw it all and made me go out and get it... The same trick had worked for my friend - however, both of her parents were blind! One year, I saw a commercial for the Fresh Air Fund (a charity that sends poor kids to summer camps) and a little boy was saying "I've never been to a farm? Will you take me there?" The camp I went to was a charity camp so I asked my parents if they had a camp in Manhattan where I could live with another family and they would take me to see plays and museums! I loved running around in the sprinkler in the playground with the cement floor, going in the public pool when I got a bit older, sitting outside in the shade on a bench reading a book - I ALWAYS wore my shoes and never walked in the grass. To this day, I love the heat of summer on my skin. I adore sitting outside reading a book. I love buying my kids an ice cream treat at the truck once in awhile. I remember my childhood summers, other than those horrible weeks in the country, with fondness. I still hate the country so much that I can't believe we send our kids to camp and they like it! [/QUOTE]
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