mbegeman

Please write anything that is helpful with tweeners campers that are flashing in hormones causing them to cry, throw-up, have worse homesickness than first time campers causing them to be most difficult to offer interventions to. Last year of course I did the 7-up, call home nightly and listen routine, but one was so disruptive, finally when her air gulping and dry heeves let up for a few minutes so we could finally get the bus going home, our lunches were forgotten. Her attention demands were suffocating to all of us. She had a history of this behavior which we didn't know until the ride home. I hovered over her the entire 6 hour bus trip, changing sacks when she'd spit bile into a sack, cooling a wash cloth for her forehead and ever offering her sips of water.This was emotional more than physical of course but still interventions were needed, and provided. For her sake if I have her next year I will ask the parent if she can provide an anti emetic suppository. Any other suggestions out there? The child had tests that showed no stomach ulcers, no bladder problems, and so they determined it had to be connected to puberty. Anyone dealt with this?