Please reassure me that DS1 will be PERFECTLY FINE at beaver camp...!

[scampadoodle]

First up, can I say that in general I am not a neurotic mother - I let them climb whatever they want, I don't hover in the playground blah blah blah.
But DS1 (7) is off on his first beaver camp the weekend after next (Saturday morning til Sunday afternoon) and I am so anxious about it! They are going in a minibus so of course I have visions of the newspaper headlines "SCOUT BUS HORROR" and then I worry about him being there overnight as he hasn't stayed away from home before without a family member being there.

I know I am being completely daft as he is a normal, gregarious, active boy and he will have a great time. Is this how we all feel? Is it called Being a Mother?! He is my eldest so it's the first time this has come up...

(DH says that if we were posh he'd be at boarding school by now anyway)

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He will be fine.

My mum ran brownies and did oodles of camps about 15-20 years ago and the rules and regs were very tight then, so they must be insane now.

Aw, bless you! He'll be fine! He'll be complete exhausted, flithy and full of it all, when he comes back!

Yes, he'll be fine; and he'll come home exhausted, and full of tales of how fab it all was.

Send him with a bin bag to put dirty clothes in, and prepare the washing machine!

he will be fine.

mine have done camps with beavers/cubs/scouts and love it and all come back fine, if muddy and tired.

Good, I am just being daft...

you are not daft. He will be fine. When I collected mine after his first night (sleepless for me) he pretended not to see because he didn't wan to go home yet..

not daft, normal.

I let mine go, and they are all ok. Never stopped me getting jittery the first time tho