Is 10 the new 2 (year old)?

My memories of summer camp: running between the mess hall and my cabin, sneaking around with friends and boys, and being responsible for getting myself to meals, art class, swim school, etc., on time. No parents in sight—and generally the counselors were at points A and B and C, not anywhere in between. 

 

Over at Free-Range Kids, a blog by Lenore Skenazy about our society's over-protective tendencies, a letter shows what modern-day "camps" can be like when organizations are more concerned about being sued than common sense. In this letter, camp counselors wouldn’t allow a 10-year-old to walk across a 100-foot parking lot to a library to wait for his mother to pick him up after a day at the "museum camp". I ask you: Is that not a bit oppressive?  If you feel your child is old enough to undertake a task like this, do camp rules trump you? What should this mother have done? Leave your comments here by clicking onto "comment(s)" just below.