u/idanceandieat

I manage a dance studio, and didn’t get approval from ownership to hire a summer camp counselor. So, it’s just me teaching 8 weeks of summer camp. I haven’t taught this much camp since 2019.

Have behaviors really gotten this bad??? Are kids really this helpless??? For real?!?

Just from today:
-One 10 year old girl SLAPPED another across the face today. Because she wouldn’t share a marker. No remorse. No ‘I’m sorry’. Complete confusion when I called her out on it.
-Trying to clean up craft with 8 year olds. A real interaction I had: “Pick the marker up. Ok now look in front of you to see if there’s a matching color lid. There is? Great. Now put it on the top. No, other end. The one with the ink. Ok press it on. More. Press until you hear a click. Did you hear it? Now put it in the marker bin” repeat, with a full bin of markers
-they begggg to play a game. Trying to be nice, I say yes. 30 seconds later they’re “bored” and refusing to play the game that 15 of them were begging for.

Am I the only one having this experience?!?! I feel absolutely crazy and don’t know how I’ll survive the summer.