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...with pencil and paper. "One of our goals is to make sure children gain a sense of independence. If they were able to e-mail Mom and Dad to be rescued every time something came up, that would destroy the whole value of camp," says owner-director Linda Courtiss. "Plus, parents would want to micromanage their kids from a distance--and that would be a camp director's nightmare...
Knowing that many parents suffer mightily from separation anxiety, however, Courtiss updates the camp website daily with 80 freshly snapped photos. "It's the best thing since Cheerios!" she says. "The photos give the parent visual validation that everything is O.K." Patti Soboroff, a Los Angeles homemaker, started using a computer for the first time when her three daughters began spending summers at Camp Vega. "I saw my girls more by visiting the website than I saw my two boys, who stayed home," she jokes...
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