At Girl Scout camp these days each girl is supposed to carry her sunscreen and insect repellent around at all times in a small bag brought for that purpose. The Girl Scout camp packing list suggests three towels: two beach towels and a shower towel. The Boy Scouts at my house all hooted derisively at this, as if perhaps the people making the list thought the girls might need to bring along their own personal ornithomimus as well. "Three towels!" they said. "When you pack for Boy Scout camp you're supposed to bring one little camp towel! That's ridiculous!"
They won't let you in the door at Girl Scout camp until they've checked your head for lice. Probably at Boy Scout camp they just enter any head lice in the nature center's critter-finding competition.
Before you can drop a girl off at Girl Scout camp they want you to complete Counselor Questionnaires, on which the parent rates six or seven different traits ("my daughter expresses her opinions") and the child rates them separately. There are three separate waivers to sign. There are no Counselor Questionnaires at Boy Scout camp.
At her brothers' urging Stella did not take a pillow to camp. ("A pillow! Is this camping or the Ritz?!") She did not take 10 pairs of socks, even though the packing list said "MUST BRING," because she does not own ten pairs of socks. I am curious about how she is faring. I miss her.
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