NY Post

Some New York parents would rather keep their kids close to home while attending camp, and are opting for Home Camp, a program run by MySuperSitter that sends trained professionals to host camps in clients’ backyards in the city and on Long Island.

Sessions cost $5,500 a week for full-day camps of up to six kids, and $3,900 a week for individual families. Activities include safety lessons, swim sessions, sports, arts and crafts, and various outdoor games.

The lower Manhattan mom — who’s spending the summer in East Hampton with her family — signed her 4-year-old son up for Home Camp with a handful of friends after deciding she didn’t want to send him to Hampton Country Day Camp again this year. 

“I knew it was not going to look the same as it had, and I didn’t want this new normal to be what my son thinks of when he goes to camp,” says the mother, citing fewer kids and mask requirements as some concerns.

Expensive or not, it’s the social interaction after months in isolation that parents are craving for their children.

“We’re hoping that this can provide these kids with some normalcy,” says the mom. “And when I see him with other kids, I might cry with happiness.”

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