Yesterday another camper decided to punch Nathan in the stomach, because Nathan had flavored water instead of the plain kind.
(Last year, Nathan got so dehydrated that we ended up in the emergency room. He dislikes plain water, so he wouldn't drink anything all day at camp, and some days it got into the 90s. This year, to combat that, I sent him to camp with little sugar free flavorings to add to his water, in hopes that at least he'd drink something. The camp said it was fine.)
The other boy gave him a hard time, all day, hitting him at least a couple times.
Well, Nathan got so disgusted with the whole thing, he decided he'd had enough. He was going home.
He was halfway to the major highway before they discovered he'd left.
Now I have a couple issues with this.
1) Why was the other boy allowed to bully my son? They had seen the hitting and the bullying. It happened right in front of the camp counselors. It happened again when Dh showed up to pick him up. Nathan told me he had been hit and pushed and kicked earlier in the week by another boy as well.
2) Where was his aide? Where was the group leader? How on Earth did a kid wander away from the camp, down a long road, with no one noticing it?
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