These Are the 14 Things Your Child's Counselor Wants You to Know Before Camp Starts

If you go up to your child's counselor on day one and tell them you know your child is not ready for a ride down a zip-line, so please allow them to opt out of it (a zip-line, by the way, is a true camp rite-of-passage), you're already doing your child a disservice in their counselor's eyes. When you pick up your child eight weeks later, they're probably going to tell you that the activity you thought they "weren't ready for" was their favorite thing all Summer — your child deserves to achieve whatever they put their minds to, so let them.