Poverty Party update!
I'm on schedule to pay off my credit card debt. I could possibly even get it paid off earlier than planned (due to car not getting fixed). Here's my dilemma. Last year I sent the boy to camp. It cost over $700. Now I feel like I have HAVE HAVE to send the daughter to camp so that she has a similar childhood experience. I think next year she'll be too old to go.
Scenario #1: Keep her home (she is already signed up for a week long art class at Gage). She grows up and she sees her therapist and complains about us not sending her to camp and we feel guilty.
Scenario #2: Keep her home. She grows up and thanks me for not making her go to camp and Sid sees his therapist and complains about us making him do stuff and letting his sister off the hook and we feel guilty.
Scenario #3: Keep her home and tell both kids to just keep their adulthood therapy to themselves.
Scenario #4: Send her to camp, pay off the debt a little later, and never have to wonder what-if.
What do you think?
In my situation, there would be no choice: STAY HOME unless the cost was less than $50. My kids managed and they didn't turn out to be neurotic or anything. I am sure it won't completely destroy her life.
However, if you can spare the money, it's a good opportunity I am sure. I just don't think it will hurt if she doesn't go to camp. (My mother actually forced me to do some things I did not like at all and going to camp was one of them. I just wasn't social.)
What does Zoe, er I mean "Niki" want to do? When she grows up and sees her therapist she will only have herself to blame for her own decision. At least you offered.
Send her to camp.
Just think, a week without arguing with Niki...priceless. And if you wanted to be really mean, then you could take that week to clean her room. (Not saying that ever happened to me...mumble, grumble...)