Our Thoughts on Missing Home

Since Cairn began in 1930, we have never had a single camper with homesickness.

That’s because we don’t believe that missing home is a sickness.

Missing home is a natural part of growing up.

Even for adults, it’s just a part of being human.

Like the mother or father who misses home during a long business trip.

It’s not a sickness – it’s just missing home.

So we don’t deal with homesickness;

we deal with missing home.

We help our campers to face and understand how they feel.

We tell them it’s a very natural feeling.

And that it’s OK.

Then they come out of it.

We’re good at this; we’ve been doing it since 1930.

(Our Thanks to Steven R. Cony for helping us think of this in a different way.)