As a former Towanda camper, Towanda mother and now grandmother, that was tough to watch as Towanda is always close to my heart and has been for 50+ years. As a grandma I appreciate what must have been an extremely tough decision and an incredibly difficult video to make. I admire “parents who are parents first” and friends to their children second. I can imagine your livelihood depends on those seven weeks a year but you are doing what you know is right in your minds for the safety and well-being of EVERYONE in your care. You are the summer parents of these children. Without having the certainty and assurance of a perfectly safe environment on your watch, you made a very difficult decision that parents often have to make and which children disagree. Perhaps nothing would have happened but how do you risk that even one child would get sick. One child is one too many. As a grandparentI NEVER would have told my children my feelings and would always support theirs. These are tough times that may be times we can use to teach character building …how to handle disappointments. For this is just one of many life can throw at you. I am sorry for everyone involved, being a staunch Towanda “girl” myself and never wanting to disappoint my kids. A serious curve ball has been thrown at the world. And tough decisions have to be made. Being safe and well is most important and everything else will be okay. So medal this will be ing history books as a huge nightmare in the lives of everyone. And it’ll show the backbone of hard decisions by many. Life seemed so much simpler when I was young but we too dealt with polio outbreaks and scary school drills where we hid under our desks in school for fear of atomic bombs during the Cold War. So I guess every generation has its challenges. We get through them and life will go on. I was crying as was Sari when I saw the video. t must have been incredibly difficult to hold it together as you spoke. I admire that you did what you think is best for the children. That is a Towanda tradition too. The kids always came first. Maybe nothing would have happened, but how can you take a chance?? With a full heart for the Towanda I know and love…and have loved for more than half a century, I am sorry that my granddaughters will miss even one summer at Towanda…a place that was my “happy place” of my childhood. With my very best regards, Caren Goldstein Gaitman….Madison and Lily’s grandma
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As a former Towanda camper, Towanda mother and now grandmother, that was tough to watch as Towanda is always close to my heart and has been for 50+ years. As a grandma I appreciate what must have been an extremely tough decision and an incredibly difficult video to make. I admire “parents who are parents first” and friends to their children second. I can imagine your livelihood depends on those seven weeks a year but you are doing what you know is right in your minds for the safety and well-being of EVERYONE in your care. You are the summer parents of these children. Without having the certainty and assurance of a perfectly safe environment on your watch, you made a very difficult decision that parents often have to make and which children disagree. Perhaps nothing would have happened but how do you risk that even one child would get sick. One child is one too many. As a grandparentI NEVER would have told my children my feelings and would always support theirs. These are tough times that may be times we can use to teach character building …how to handle disappointments. For this is just one of many life can throw at you. I am sorry for everyone involved, being a staunch Towanda “girl” myself and never wanting to disappoint my kids. A serious curve ball has been thrown at the world. And tough decisions have to be made. Being safe and well is most important and everything else will be okay. So medal this will be ing history books as a huge nightmare in the lives of everyone. And it’ll show the backbone of hard decisions by many. Life seemed so much simpler when I was young but we too dealt with polio outbreaks and scary school drills where we hid under our desks in school for fear of atomic bombs during the Cold War. So I guess every generation has its challenges. We get through them and life will go on. I was crying as was Sari when I saw the video. t must have been incredibly difficult to hold it together as you spoke. I admire that you did what you think is best for the children. That is a Towanda tradition too. The kids always came first. Maybe nothing would have happened, but how can you take a chance?? With a full heart for the Towanda I know and love…and have loved for more than half a century, I am sorry that my granddaughters will miss even one summer at Towanda…a place that was my “happy place” of my childhood. With my very best regards, Caren Goldstein Gaitman….Madison and Lily’s grandma
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