Next it’ll be military school

Our plan for the summer was for Andrea to spend most of it in Summer Camp at the school where I work. Which involves me spending more time with her and getting to see her in the days. A brilliant plan.

So of course today I was informed that due to her rampant throwing of tantrums, refusal to share, and—the last nail in the coffin—running away from her counselor, she will not be attending Summer Camp anymore.

After a panicky phone call we managed to get her enrolled back in the program at the Y, so at least one of us won’t have to take the summer off work, but it’s a major setback.

The current major theory is that she’s used to things being more structured, and in small classrooms, while Summer Camp is spread out over a large campus and is very unstructured. Which can be hard for some children to adapt to. At the same time, the last time she had issues at preschool, it turned out to have been related to another child’s behavior. It’s very hard to get information out of her, so at this point we can just guess, but whatever was really happening will probably leak out of her over time.

I’m certainly not placing any blame on the staff at Summer Camp—they’ve been doing a good job. Guess you just have to accept that certain environments don’t work as well as others.

But yeah, this is certainly stress I don’t need.