I hope they have some good family counseling set up for these children adn their parents.

I watched the preview and they make it sound innocuous and even fun and kind of cool. I think it would make a great summer camp, actually. But at summer camp there are loads of adults (or at least college kids) around to keep everyone safe and to mark bleach bottles and whatnot.

I also read all the comments on one of the NYT articles where people talk about why they would or would not send their kids to this kind of program. After reading hundreds of comments, I see why the CBS box is full. However, the people in favor were all saying things like “this is like summer camp, but summer camp is really expensive and here they were paying you!” and “that’s a standard waiver for any activity these days.” to the first I say: shame on you! and to the second I say: no it isn’t. Most waivers say that you give permission for your child to be treated by the qualified and licensed medical professional chosen by the leaders or organization if you can’t be reached. This one signed away the child’s rights to qualified and licensed medical care and claimed it was not the responsibility of CBS to determine the qualifications of medical personnel. That is most definitely child abuse.

Okay, I’m going to eat dinner now and try to stop thinking about this again. It didn’t work last time…maybe a root beer float dessert will help…

I can see why kids would have found it a really, really cool idea. Heck, it’s “build your own fort” on steroids. But I really don’t get why the grown-ups weren’t saying, “uh. no. come inside and practice your piano. we’ll build a fort tomorrow.”

As to the bleach thing. People often put bleach in smaller bottles, because the large ones splash very easily. But they usually mark them. And don’t leave them sitting around on TV sets. And kids don’t necc. know what bleach smells like. Which is why we don’t leave it sitting around. unmarked. on TV sets. where there are no adults.

Isn’t there some kind of legal issue with basically renting out your kid for 6 weeks in the middle of the school year to thoroughly negligent people? Again I say, why would you sign that waiver for the possibility of a few thousand dollars? I think I’d be prosecuting the parents as much as CBS. Our materialist society disgusts me.

That’s all for tonight…stories like this make me all agitated and unable to sleep, and then I say dumb things in church. It happened last week after I read about Israel deporting refugees from Darfur. I don’t think I can take much more of this world or the people in it.

anyone wanna come join my cloistered community in northern Italy where there will be ministry enough for all but also amazing food and good friends always available? And also clean air? No technology allowed, perhaps? at least, no TV….