Summer Camps [schooldays.ie]
- Published: 04 May 2011
With the long Easter break now over and the final term underway, many parent’s thoughts will be turning to Summer Camps. The local papers have been promoting local camps for weeks and it’s hard to ignore the posters going up in the post office and local shops.
With activities ranging from theatre and singing, art classes, pony riding, football and GAA there is a seemingly endless amount of ways to keep the kids amused, entertained, active and (most importantly) away from under your feet over the summer holidays!
Summer camps were certainly not part of my own childhood – we simply amused ourselves in the back garden making perfume from rose petals, or spent endless days on our bikes and catching sticklebacks in jam jars in the local stream. But this is a different world we live in now and for many parents, the option of letting our children roam freely around the local lanes and rivers is not really an option. Which is a terrible shame, but a fact of modern life.
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