And now to our parent question box:

Dear Shablogger,

It is impossible to get my kids to do chores at home. They hate to take out the garbage, walk the dog, but more than anything, I can never get them to clear the table. How do you get the kids to clear so many tables, so fast?

Yours,

Dirty Dining Room

Dear Dirty Dining Room,

We do a little thing here at camp called stacking and scraping. Every table piles all of their food waste onto one plate (once a day we weigh this plate, to see as a camp how much we are wasting and work to improve it). Then the “hoppers” carry all of the dishes to the front of the room, where they are separated and given to the kitchen staff. Just ask any Camp T camper, and they will be able to tell you, “Leftovers on the left, metal in the middle and everything else… right over here!”

So in conclusion, by making it fun and encouraging kids to work as a group, cleaning can get done with no hassle at all.

Yours,

The Shablogger

After just one day the girls of G-Gimmil are already old pros at the stack and scrape method.