It’s Alright to Cry

During camp this summer, we post pictures daily, so that “childsick” parents can get their daily fix of vicariously enjoying their child’s camp experience. Most of the time, that strategy also gives us as campadministrators the side benefit of minimizing concerned parent phone calls, since folks get to enjoy the picture-worth-a-thousand-words pleasure of seeing their child’s enjoyment. Every now and then, our picture posting inadvertently causes a parent concern, such as once when a picture showing happy campers on a challenge hike also showed a crying camper in the background. […]

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