The mom and dad were staggering up the street holding their daughter's camp gear between them — a duffel bag seemingly stuffed with Pavarotti.

"This is the small bag," the mom said through a gritted smile. They made their way through a throng of parents, all bidding goodbye to children off to sleep-away camp. Some of them were homesick already.

The parents, I mean. The new term for this is "childsickness."

It's not that parents never moped for th ...

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